Israeli police have arrested top Palestinian Muslim cleric Sheikh Ekrima Sabri in his home.
"Today as a result of a recommendation by the attorney general, Ekrima Sabri was detained for investigation by the Israeli police," said an Israeli police spokesman.
He said the investigation concerned comments made in June by the Jerusalem mufti in the Palestinian press on the right of Palestinians to use suicide bombers against the Israeli occupation.
Police said he was detained "in regard to a statement he made in the Al-Ayyam newspaper on June 11th in which he pronounced upon the right of the Palestinian people to fight the Israeli occupation and saying there's no religious prohibition on the use of suicide bombings".
AFP
