OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (PIC)– Israeli occupation police urged Israeli courts to ban head of the Islamic Movement in the 1948-occupied Palestinian lands Sheikh Raed Salah from entering the entire occupied city of Jerusalem for 60 days over his active role in protesting Israel’s demolition works at the Aqsa Mosque.
Salah was arrested on Wednesday at his sit-in tent which he pitched at the Wadi Al-Joz area after an Israeli court two weeks ago ordered him not to approach the Aqsa Mosque for 60 days.
According to his lawyer Khaled Zabarka the Sheikh was detained at the Maskobeh detention center on Israeli police allegations that he insulted them defied their orders and waved Palestinian and Syrian flags.
Families of Syrian prisoners in Israeli jails coming from the occupied Syrian Golan Heights joined Salah’s protest activities and held pro-Aqsa rallies.
The IOA has been carrying out demolition works at the Magharba gate one of the Aqsa Mosque’s gates for one month that prompted angry reactions in Palestine and across the Arab and Muslim worlds.
The arrest of Salah according to responsible source in his Movement was meant to subdue the Sheikh and stop him from inducing Palestinian citizens into standing up in defense of the Aqsa.
“This is a coward action that obviously reveals the state of horror and hysteria that engulf the Zionist institution due to the Sheikh’s success in drawing the world’s attention to the Israeli occupation government’s crimes against the Mosque” said a statement issued by the Movement’s political office.
The statement furthermore affirmed that in spite of Salah’s arrest and ban from entering the holy city the Movement will never relax its activities in blocking Israel’s malicious plans against the Mosque and will steadily unmask those crimes before the international community.
Sheikh Salah was reportedly released from custody at a late hour Wednesday.
