The Israeli occupation police have decided to ban Sheikh Osamah al-Uqbi member of the Higher Guidance Committee for the Palestinians of the Negev from entering the Aqsa Mosque for one month.
Sheikh Uqbi attended an interrogation session held for him on Wednesday at the Qishla police station in Occupied Jerusalem in the presence of lawyer Khaled Zabarqa before he received a written order prohibiting his entry to the Mosque.
Last Tuesday the Israeli police notified Sheikh Uqbi of its decision to deny him entry to the Mosque for one week.
“Our love for the Aqsa Mosque runs in our blood veins and this love and adoration will continue until we die” Sheikh Uqbi said after he received the new police order adding that “the Israeli occupation have no right to the Aqsa Mosque even an iota of its soil.”
For his part lawyer Zabarqa described the Aqsa entry ban against Sheikh Uqbi as “having no legal basis politically motivated and aimed at emptying the Aqsa Mosque of its Muslim worshipers and suppressing its supporters.”
“In accordance with the international law and resolutions the Israeli occupation does not have any sovereignty or legitimacy over Jerusalem City … so it has no jurisdiction to enforce its civil laws and its will as an occupying force on Jerusalem City and the Aqsa Mosque” the lawyer added.
“The Israeli occupation and its military and security arms adopt the ideology of the Jewish terror groups and execute their agenda on the ground” he underlined.
In another incident the Israeli Ofer military court on Wednesday sentenced Na’el al-Halabi 33 to 56 months in jail and ordered him to pay a financial penalty of 6000 shekels.
Halabi was kidnaped by Israeli soldiers at the Qalandia checkpoint in the northeast of Jerusalem in October 2020 and transferred to the Moskobiya detention center in the holy city where he was exposed to 75 days of physical torture.
