Today, Tuesday, the Israeli occupation intelligence service handed over a summons for investigation to the preacher of Al-Aqsa Mosque, Sheikh Ikrima Sabri, after storming his home in occupied Jerusalem.
Palestinian media quoted the legal office of Sheikh Akram Sabri (85 years old) as saying that the occupation intelligence raided his home and summoned him for investigation at the Al-Maskoubiya Center in East Jerusalem.
The occupation authorities arrested Sheikh Sabri for several hours, after he mourned in the Friday sermon at Al-Aqsa the martyr Ismail Haniyeh, head of the political bureau of Hamas, who was assassinated by Israel in the Iranian capital, Tehran, at the end of last July.
Last August, it issued a decision to prevent the Al-Aqsa preacher from entering the mosque for a period of 6 months.
Sheikh Akram Sabri constantly asserts that Israel aims to prevent criticism of the violations committed by those who invaded the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, accusing the Israeli media and extremist groups of inciting against him “fiercely and deliberately.”
Israeli police have arrested Sheikh Sabri several times over the past few years.
Sheikh Akram Sabri ascended the pulpit of Al-Aqsa Mosque for the first time to deliver a sermon in 1973, and has continued to do so for the 51st consecutive year. However, his sermons and words do not please the occupation, which began to persecute him in 2000 with the outbreak of the Second Intifada.
Since then and until today, he has been subjected to summons, arrest, and investigation, in addition to the punishments of expulsion from Al-Aqsa Mosque and a travel ban, and the threat of demolishing his house located in the Al-Sawana neighborhood near the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.