OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Israeli occupation police raided the house of Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, head of the Higher Islamic Council in Occupied Jerusalem, and questioned him on Tuesday evening.
Local sources said that the Israeli occupation authority in Jerusalem decided to suspend the order to summon Sheikh Sabri for a hearing at the Israeli higher court, which was supposed to be held to decide on banishing him from the Aqsa Mosque for six more months.
The sources added that the Israeli police informed Sheikh Sabri of their intent to ban his entry to the Mosque last August.
The Israeli police had decided to banish Sheikh Sabri from the Aqsa Mosque after he mourned martyr Ismail Haneyya, head of Hamas’s political bureau, during a Friday khutba (sermon).
At the time, the Hamas Movement condemned the Israeli measure against Sheikh Sabri as ”arbitrary” and “aimed at punishing him for his national and Islamic role in defending Jerusalem and the Aqsa Mosque against Judaization attempts.”
