Islamic Movement Leader Salah Arrested For Incitement In Israel

The Jerusalem Post reports that "Sheikh Raed Salah, the leader of the Islamic Movement's northern branch, was arrested Tuesday evening on suspicion of inciting the recent Arab riots in Jerusalem. Salah was arrested in the Wadi Joz area of east Jerusalem, on a rooftop of a home where members of the movement's northern branch had congregated. He was taken for questioning... Meanwhile, police announced that access to the Temple Mount on Wednesday would once again be restricted to Muslim men over 50 with Israeli ID cards, and Muslim women. The restrictions were imposed at the end of last week following security concerns, and police released footage on Monday of stockpiles of rocks inside the mount's Aksa Mosque which Arabs had apparently planned to hurl at Jewish worshipers praying at the Western Wall below. Earlier Tuesday, after Israeli ministers had called for his arrest, a defiant Salah said that he and his supporters 'would pay any price to defend the Aksa [Mosque]' in Jerusalem."
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