Today, Sunday, Jerusalemite lawyer Rami Othman was able to obtain a judicial decision from the Israeli occupation courts acquitting the Jerusalemite preacher Sheikh Esmat Al-Hamouri (57 years) from the town of Beit Hanina, north of Jerusalem, after about a year and two months of his arrest and trial on charges of incitement against the occupying state.

Lawyer Rami Othman told Al-Quds.com: “The occupation police arrested the preacher Ismat Al-Hamouri in the month of Ramadan last year, after recording him on the application (TikTok), in which the police claimed that he appears in him giving a sermon in Al-Aqsa Mosque calling for the liberation of Jerusalem by force.” Weapons, but we, as a defense body, were able to refute these allegations, as the video could be fabricated, and the police could not prove their allegations, which is a precedent for refuting those allegations of incitement in Al-Aqsa Mosque and posting on social media.

According to Othman, after the occupation court arrested Sheikh Hammouri for 40 days, he remained in house arrest for six months, bound by an electronic bracelet, and the occupation intended to try him for 20 months. A precedent issued by the Israeli judiciary against the people of Jerusalem.

Othman stressed the necessity of moving away from legal deals, and working to refute the charges against the clients, since the deals are an admission of the charges, which requires looking for gaps in the accusations and not acknowledging them, indicating that the decision of complete innocence of Sheikh Hammouri opens the way for him to file a case against the occupation and request material and moral compensation. For the damages he suffered as a result of this trial and the penalties imposed against him.

For his part, Sheikh Al-Hamouri told Al-Quds.com: "After this decision, all measures taken against me a year and two months ago were lifted, including the travel ban, the ban on entering Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the ban on entering the Old City of Jerusalem."

Al-Hamouri added, "What happened to me came as a tax for our presence in Al-Aqsa Mosque. I was offered many deals to confess to the charges against me, but I refused to admit these charges, because I teach people the Islamic religion and this is not an accusation, and I thank lawyer Rami Othman for his efforts that resulted in this." acquittal decision.

The occupation forces arrested Sheikh Hammouri on the 22nd of April 2022, on charges of incitement because of the Sharia lessons and sermons he delivers in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, and he spent 40 days in the occupation prisons, until he was released on conditions restricting his movement, as he spent six months in house arrest. “House confinement” with an electronic tracking bracelet, deportation from the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Old City of Jerusalem, and a 14-month travel ban.