Israel bans Jerusalem Waqf deputy director from Al-Aqsa for 6 months

Sheikh Najeh Bakirat, the Deputy Director of the Jerusalem Islamic Waqf [@PalEvePlus/Twitter]

Israeli authorities yesterday banned the Deputy Director of the Jerusalem Islamic Waqf Council, Sheikh Najeh Bakirat, from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque for six months.

Quds Press quoted local sources as saying that the occupation’s intelligence services summoned Bakirat and interrogated him “before handing him a ban.”

Bakirat has been arrested numerous times, banned from entering Al-Aqsa and from traveling over the past few years.

In recent years, the Israeli occupation has banned a number of Palestinians from entering Al-Aqsa Mosque for periods ranging from one week to several months.

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