Deputy Director of the Jerusalem Islamic Waqf Council Sheikh Najeh Bakirat has stressed that the deportation orders issued by the Israeli occupation authority (IOA) against Jerusalemite figures will not weaken their determination to defend Jerusalem.
In a press statement on Thursday Bakirat reiterated that he will continue defending Jerusalem against the Israeli occupation until there will be no place for the occupiers.
Earlier on Wednesday the IOA decided to deport Sheikh Bakirat from Jerusalem to Bethlehem for six months after releasing him.
Israeli police had arrested Bakirat after storming his house in Sur Baher town southeast of Jerusalem as part of an arrest campaign launched against Jerusalemite figures.
Bakirat had been deported from Jerusalem thirty times since 2003. He had been arrested dozens of times since 1981.
