Israel renews Sheikh Raed Salah's travel ban

Israeli security authorities issued on Wednesday an order to extend its travel ban imposed on Sheikh Raed Salah, the head of the Islamic Movement inside Israel, until 9 January 2015, Pls48 news website reported.

The order that the Israeli authorities handed to Sheikh Salah was signed by Interior Minister Gilad Erdan and claimed that his traveling abroad would “harm Israel’s security”.

Commenting on the news, Sheikh Salah said that: “Although the Israeli authorities seek to put me physically under siege, they cannot silence my voice, because my voice is the voice of every free person in our Muslim nation, the Arab world and among the Palestinian people, and this voice cannot be silenced or broken because it is the voice of righteousness in the face of the Israeli occupation.”

He told Pls48 that: “It seems the Israeli authorities are trying to harm the Palestinian will and our youth through such repressive and violent policies. Israel is under the illusion that these racist practices can succeed in breaking our will, killing the resolve of the people of Jerusalem and ending their ability to stand up to Israel’s policies against Al-Aqsa Mosque.”

Sheikh Salah added that he was certain Israel would regret resorting to such policies.

He pointed to the state of hysteria and confusion that the Israeli authorities are currently going through, which is prompting them “to execute our people in Jerusalem, as well as the martyr Khier Hamdan in Kar Kana in Hebron.”

“They are also proposing a list of racist laws against us, laws that could have very ugly implications, including deporting us from our land.”

But in spite of all this, Sheikh Salah noted that, “Our strategy is clear and irreversible, which is the strategy of stability and remaining on our land.”