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| Sheik Ekrima Sabri gets accompanied out of Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on August 2. — Anadolu |
JERUSALEM: A senior strict figure was confined on doubt of instigating "psychological warfare" on Friday after he grieved killed Hamas pioneer Ismail Haniyeh at Jerusalem's Al Aqsa Mosque, his legal counselor said.
Sheik Ekrima Sabri, 85, the previous stupendous mufti of Jerusalem and current top of its Preeminent Islamic Committee, called Haniyeh a saint in his lesson at the mosque in Israeli-attached east Jerusalem, the legal counselor said.
"(Sabri) is at present in Al-Maskobiya (police compound) being scrutinized on doubt of impelling psychological warfare, since he grieved Ismail Haniyeh during the Friday lesson and depicted him as a saint," his legal counselor Hamza Qatina said.
Israeli police, without naming Sabri, said they had "opened an examination concerning an imam associated with making impelling proclamations and supporting psychological warfare during a lesson given (on Friday)".
Sabri was accused of impelling psychological warfare in June for purportedly lauding Palestinians who killed four Israelis, including a trooper, in October 2022.
At that point, he impugned a "created" crusade against him.
A man in his twenties was likewise captured for making "prompting proclamations" during Friday supplications, the Israeli police explanation added.
Source: Dawan