Jerusalem - Ma'an - The occupation authorities on Thursday banned Sheikh Ikrima Sabri, head of the Supreme Islamic Council and preacher of Al-Aqsa Mosque, from Al-Aqsa for a period of 6 months. Khaled Zabarqa, the Sheikh's lawyer, explained that the intelligence service handed Sheikh Sabri a decision to ban him from Al-Aqsa for 6 months. The forces arrested Sheikh Sabri on Friday afternoon, and he was interrogated for 5 hours on the background of his eulogy for the martyr Ismail Haniyeh during the Friday sermon. He was released in the evening hours on condition that he be banned from Al-Aqsa for a week, with the possibility of renewing it. Today, Sheikh Sabri was handed a decision to ban him from Al-Aqsa for 6 months. Source: Maan News Agency