8/8/2024–|Last update: 8/8/202402:06 PM (Makkah Time)
This morning, Thursday, the Israeli police issued a decision to prevent the preacher from… Al-Aqsa Mosque Sheikh Akram Sabri From entering the Al-Aqsa Mosque for a period of 6 months.
Lawyer Khaled Zabarqa said in a phone call with Al Jazeera that the Israeli police had decided to ban Sheikh Sabri from the Holy Mosque due to his eulogy during the Friday prayer sermon for the head of the political bureau of the movement. agitation martyr Ismail Haniyeh Who was assassinated in Tehran on July 31.
Zabarqa added that the decision came after a wide-scale incitement campaign launched by Jewish extremists against Sheikh Sabri in recent days.
The occupation police released the sheikh last Friday after arresting him and interrogating him for 6 hours.
The Sheikh did not break the law.
Zabarqa confirmed – in statements to Al Jazeera Net – that Sheikh Sabri mourned Haniyeh during his sermon at Al-Aqsa Mosque, adding, “After the sermon, we noticed that there was a systematic and large-scale incitement against His Eminence the Sheikh, and one of its results was the raiding of the Sheikh's house in the Al-Sawana neighborhood in Jerusalem, and he was taken to the investigation center in Jerusalem, which is called Room 4.”
He pointed out that Sheikh Sabri's statements “are not considered – according to Israeli law – a violation, and it is natural for a person of the stature of Sheikh Akram Sabri to mourn a Palestinian leadership figure who is part of the Palestinian spectrum.”
Sheikh Sabry said at the beginning of the second sermon, in a live broadcast broadcast by the Islamic Endowments Department: In the holy city On her Facebook page, she said, “The people of Jerusalem and the environs of Jerusalem and those on the pulpit of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque mourn the martyr Ismail Haniyeh with God. We ask God Almighty to have mercy on him and to place him in His spacious gardens with the prophets, the truthful, the martyrs, and the righteous. What excellent companions they are.”
To the sound of the worshippers’ takbeers, the sheikh announced the funeral prayer in absentia “for his soul and for all the martyrs and for all the Muslims who were present.”