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A Damascus court sentenced Ahmed Hassoun, the Assad-era grand mufti, to life in prison for inciting civil war and complicity in killings, ruling that the official religious establishment aided regime military and security operations during Syria’s long civil war.
A Damascus court sentenced Ahmad Badreddin Hassoun, Syria’s former grand mufti, to life in prison for incitement to violence, justifying killings and abusing his office, ruling that he used religious authority to back military operations and to advocate destruction of civilian areas tied to the war; he received 20 years for inciting killings and 10 more for prolonging them, must pay restitution, and is barred from amnesty with assets confiscated for the public treasury. This marks a rare transitional-justice case targeting a top religious official in Assad’s regime.
Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, vehemently opposed the idea of Palestinian statehood during a U.N. Security Council meeting, holding up a World War II-era photo of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem meeting with Adolf Hitler to emphasize his point. Erdan accused the U.N. of supporting Palestinian statehood, likening it to reinforcing modern-day Nazi Jihadists. The Palestinian Authority's bid for U.N. membership is being revived, but Israel insists that statehood should be negotiated with them and not sidestepped through the U.N.