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Israeli police temporarily detained the imam of Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa Mosque for praying for the slain Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. Police officers took the 85-year-old Islamic cleric Ekrima Sabri away for a few hours after Friday prayers, his lawyer said. Israeli media reported that the police were investigating whether Sabri had incited violence during the prayers. Haniyeh, the Qatar-based leader of the Islamist Palestinian organization Hamas, died in a targetted killing on Wednesday during a visit to Tehran. Iran and Hamas have blamed Israel, which in turn has not commented. In the mosques of…

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