A senior Muslim cleric was detained on suspicion of inciting “terrorism” after he mourned slain Hamas politburo leader Ismail Haniyeh at Jerusalem’s Al Aqsa Mosque, his lawyer told AFP. Sheikh Ekrima Sabri, 85, the former grand mufti of Jerusalem and current head of its Supreme Islamic Council, called Haniyeh a “martyr” in his sermon at the mosque occupied east Jerusalem, the lawyer said. Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran early on Wednesday in an attack that Iran and the Palestinian group blamed on Israel.
