JERUSALEM, January 23, 2012 (WAFA) - The Mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Muhammad Hussein, Monday denied Israeli media reports that he incited against Jews.

He told Voice of Palestine radio that “these allegations come within the Israeli incitement campaign against Jerusalem and its figures.”

Ahmad Rweidi, an advisor on Jerusalem in the president’s office, denounced accusations by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against Sheikh Hussein and his call to interrogate him.

He told Voice of Palestine that Netanyahu’s call to start a legal investigation of Sheikh Hussein is considered as “targeting Palestinian religious and national figures.”

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