Israel sentences Jerusalem imam to 3 years in jail over alleged incitement toward violence

Israel has sentenced a Palestinian imam to three years in prison over alleged incitement towards terrorism, over a year after the beginning of the ongoing conflict between Occupation forces and the Hamas group.

According to media reports, an Israeli court this week sentenced 70-year-old Sheikh Jamal Mustafa – the imam of a mosque in Jerusalem’s Issawiya neighbourhood – to three years imprisonment, over allegations of incitement in one of his sermons last year.

israeli occupation court sentenced Sheik Jamal Mustafa, 70, from occupied Jerusalem to 3 years in prison over incitement claims! pic.twitter.com/rn3dRzkXcb

— Motasem A Dalloul (@AbujomaaGaza) November 5, 2024

Initially arrested and detained in October last year, at the beginning of Israel’s ongoing bombardment and invasion of the Gaza Strip, as part of a reported crackdown on the Palestinian population’s expression of support for Resistance and operations such as 7 October.

Aside from Sheikh Mustafa’s detention and sentencing, Israeli police are also reported to have imprisoned two other imams of mosques in Jerusalem on a similar charge following the attacks.

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