An Israeli court on Tuesday sentenced firebrand Islamic preacher Sheikh Raed Salah to eight months in prison for inciting Muslims to violence over Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque. Salah, leader of the radical **rthern wing of the Islamic Movement in Israel, was convicted in **vember of inciting "all Muslims and Arabs" in 2007 to "start an intifada (uprising) to support holy
Jerusalem and the blessed Al-Aqsa mosque." In addition to the eight-month sentence, Salah will serve a further eight months if he repeats the same felony within three years, according to a court document. In 2011, he was arrested at the Allenby border crossing between the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Jordan after allegedly striking a member of the security forces who wanted to question his wife. The previous year, he spent five months behind bars for spitting at an Israeli policeman.
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