Sheikh Salah: ‘Netanyahu’s incitement will not stop me exposing Israeli crimes’

Head of Islamic Movement in Israel Sheikh Raed Salah yesterday rejected Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s incitement against him, pledging to continue “exposing Israeli crimes,” Quds Press reported.

On Sunday, Netanyahu accused Salah, whose movement was banned by the Israeli government in November, of being behind all the chaos in occupied Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque, saying he should have been jailed a long time ago.

In a statement, Salah said: “Threatening language and incitement against me will not stop me from exposing of the Israeli occupation’s crimes in Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque and the surrounding areas.”

“I do not fear anyone but God. It is a great honour to defend the blessed city of Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque. I am sure that the Israeli occupation and its representatives are ending very soon.”

Salah had called for Palestinians to visit Al-Aqsa Mosque and stay inside it in large numbers during the Jewish Passover, in an attempt to undermine the plans of extremist Jewish leaders to increase their presence on the site.