Jordan on Tuesday strongly condemned the storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque/ al-Haram al-Sharif compound by the Israeli national security minister, under the heavy protection of the Israeli forces.
Spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Sinan Majali said in a statement that the storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque by an Israeli cabinet member and violating its sanctity is a condemned and provocative and amounts to a flagrant violation of international law, as well as of the historical and legal status quo in Jerusalem and its sanctities.
Majali warned that continued breaches and attacks on holy sites, as well as Israeli raids into occupied Palestinian territory, could lead to further escalation, urging the international community to take swift and decisive action to put an end to such practices.
He emphasized that the holy compound, which covers a total area of 144 dunums, is a solely Muslim place of worship, and that the Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque Affairs Department is the body with exclusive jurisdiction to manage all affairs of the compound and organize entry to it.
The ministry’s official spokesman held Israel solely accountable for the grave consequences of this escalation, which he asserted threatens undermining all efforts made to prevent an upsurge in violence that endangers security and peace.
In addition, he demanded that Israel, as the occupying power, immediately cease all efforts to alter the legal and historical status quo and impose spatial or temporal divisions.
Source: Jordan News Agency