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Ammon News - AMMONNEWS - Jordanian government outraged over detention of Sheikh Muhammad Salim, who was released from police custody after questioning Friday .

Waqf officials say they will not allow security cameras inside mosques at the site, as agreed to by Jordan and Israel.

Jerusalem District police officers on Friday afternoon briefly detained Jordanian Sheikh Muhammad Salim for questioning after the Muslim preacher made inciting remarks during a sermon he delivered at Al-Aqsa mosque .

A crowd of worshippers gathered at the scene to protest Salim's arrest, chanting "Allahu akbar."

Salim was released from custody after he was questioned by the police.

The Jordanian government, meanwhile, was outraged over the incident.

Jordanian Religious Trusts Minister Hail Daoud harshly condemned Salim's arrest and told Jordan's Petra News Agency, "This is an unacceptable action by the Israeli authorities, who arrested a religious official fulfilling his duties at Friday prayers."

Daoud strongly denied Israel's claim that Salim's was arrested for delivering a sermon that allegedly contained messages aimed to incite and ferment unrest.

Meanwhile, Jordanian Waqf officials on the Al Aqsa mosque declared tFhey would not allow security cameras to be installed inside the mosques at the site, and that the dozens of video cameras earmarked for the closed-circuit surveillance system, agreed upon by Israel and Jordan, would only be installed outside the mosques. As a reminder, the agreement to install the security cameras at the complex was reached with the intent of preventing violence at the site, as well as to identify provocateurs.

Additionally, in recent days fliers were distributed on the Al Aqsa mosque giving Muslim worshippers a directive to "break the security cameras that the Zionist occupier places at Al-Aqsa."

*Israel Hayom