Today, Thursday, the Israeli occupation authorities released the Jerusalemite Sheikh Mahmoud Abu Khudair after 13 months of detention in the occupation prisons.

Sheikh Abu Khudair was arrested on December 5, 2023, on charges of incitement, identification with terrorism, and praying for Gaza and its people during a sermon he gave in the Shuafat Mosque after October 7.

Abu Khudair hails from the town of Shuafat and has been the imam of its Grand Mosque since his youth, succeeding his late father, Sheikh Falah Abu Khudair.