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British Muslim and Jewish communities' relationship ‘fractured’ by Israel's attacks on Gaza, leading imam warns
Imam Sabah Ahmedi, who has said relations between Jewish and Muslim communities in Britain are ‘fragile and fractured’ 12 months into the war in Gaza which has seen thousands killed

A LEADING British imam has warned that relationships between Islamic and Jewish communities in Britain have become “fragile and fractured” as a result of Israel’s year-long onslaught in Gaza.

And Imam Qari Asim, chairman of the Mosques & Imams National Advisory Board, said that Israel’s military expansion of its attacks into Lebanon has created an “apocalypse.”

But he praised those members of both communities who were maintaining dialogue.

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