The Israeli Rishon Letzion Magistrate Court extended on Thursday the detention of Sheikh Raed Salah the head of the northern branch of the Islamic movement until Monday.

Dozens of protesters escorted Sheikh Salah to court and demanded his immediate release. They rejected the Israeli police’s allegations and charges of incitement to violence that were brought against Sheikh Salah. The Jerusalemite protesters also hailed Salah’s role in defending al-Aqsa Mosque and the occupied city of Jerusalem.

Sheikh Salah said during the court session that he has been subjected to a large-scale incitement campaign and charged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with responsibility in full for anything wrong that might happen to him.

Sheikh Salah was rounded up by Israeli police at dawn Tuesday from his home in Umm al-Fahm city in 1948 Occupied Palestine.

An Israeli court extended on Tuesday the detention of Sheikh Raed Salah the head of the northern branch of the Islamic movement until Thursday.

However the court rejected the police’s allegations that Salah had incited violence in his eulogy at the funeral of the three Palestinians whose anti-occupation attack had killed two Border Police officers.

Rishon Letzion Magistrate’s Court Judge Menahem Mizrahi responded to the police that Salah’s pronouncements at the funeral were citations from the holy Quran. “I find a similarity to the funeral ceremony from another religion but it does not count as incitement” he said in his ruling.

Sheikh Salah was rounded up by Israeli police at dawn Tuesday from his home in Umm al-Fahm. Israeli policemen confiscated two computers for the family from his home.

Sheikh Salah said that his arrest was part of the Israeli targeting of Palestinian leaders in the 1948 occupied Palestinian territories.

Salah told reporters before the court session was held in order to consider the extension of his detention that his arrest aims at keeping the media busy with the issue of his arrest rather than with the charges brought against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (PIC)– The Israeli Magistrate court on Monday extended the detention of Sheikh Ra’ed Salah the leader of the Islamic movement in 1948 occupied Palestine till Wednesday.

One of the Sheikh’s lawyers charged that the prosecution charges were contradictory adding that the arrest was 15 days after the alleged incident occurred.

He said that absence of material evidence and witnesses prove that the accusation against the Sheikh of starting fire in Negev groves was sheer fabrication.

The Israeli authorities arrested Sheikh Salah on 22/2/2011 after claiming that he burnt groves in the Araqib village in the Negev which was razed by the Israeli authorities 20 times. The Israeli prosecution claimed that Sheikh Salah started the fire on 7/2/2011 a claim that was ridiculed by those attending the hearing.

RAMALLAH (PIC)– The Israeli magistrate court has extended the detention of Sheikh Raed Salah the leader of the Islamic movement in 1948 land for eight more days until completion of interrogation by Israeli intelligence.

Sheikh Kamal Al-Khatib the deputy leader of the movement said that Israel was trying to fabricate “heavyweight charges” against Sheikh Salah.

The ruling followed nine hours of discussion on the legality of those Arab Israelis’ participation in the Freedom Flotilla heading to Gaza with necessary medical and humanitarian supplies.

The head of the Arab follow up committee in the 1948 land Mohammed Zeidan and Sheikh Hamad Abu Daabsa the head of the southern branch of the Islamic movement were also remanded along with Sheikh Salah for the same reason.

The court is leveling ten charges against the Arab detainees including causing serious injuries to policemen illegal gathering participation in disturbing peace violations regarding weapons and disobeying police and army orders.