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.

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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