April 10, 2005 Sheik Hassan Youssef

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“Huge Police Force Bars Israeli Rightist Rally at Jerusalem Holy Site.”

A West Bank leader of the militant Palestinian Hamas movement, Sheik Hassan Youssef, was detained after he tried to return to Ramallah after illegally attending the Muslim rally at Al Aksa Mosque.  Sheik Youssef, who is in his 60’s and was recently released from jail, is barred from entering Israel or East Jerusalem.  He gave an interview earlier on Sunday to the satellite channel Al Jazeera from the mosque compound and called on

“all our people in Jerusalem and the land occupied in 1948 to head toward Al Aksa Mosque.”

Source: Erlanger, Steven and Greg Myre. New York Times, April 11, 2005.