Netanyahu wants to see Haneen Zoabi probed for 'inciting violence'

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has asked the attorney general to open a probe against MK Haneen Zoabi, from the Joint List for allegedly inciting violence.

Comments made to a Hamas newspaper, published over the weekend, in which Zoabi said that “hundreds of thousands of worshippers must ascent to al-Aqsa to stand against the Israeli plot to allow the blood of East Jerusalem residents to be spilled," were cited as evidence against her.

Legislators tried to ban her from standing for elections earlier this year, but the ruling was overturned by the country’s Supreme Court.