AMMAN — Jordan on Sunday condemned the allowance
of Israeli extremists and a Knesset member to storm the Al-Aqsa Mosque
compound, warning that escalation could follow the planned Israeli march in
Jerusalem’s Old City, according to the Jordan News Agency, Petra.
اضافة اعلان
Haitham Abu Alfoul, the spokesperson of the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates said storming Al-Aqsa, usually under the
protection of Israeli police, is a “violation of the historical and legal
status quo and international law”.
He reaffirmed
that Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam’s third holiest shrine, is “purely a place of
worship for Muslims”. He also reasserted that the Jordanian-run Waqf, or
endowment, and Al-Aqsa Affairs Administration in Jerusalem have the exclusive
jurisdiction to run all the affairs of the holy site.
Two thousand
settlers stormed the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque Sunday morning, under the
protection of the Israeli occupation forces, ahead of the so-called “flag
march” which was planned to take place later that day passing through the Old
City and ending at the Damascus Gate, a usual hotspot. Israel arrested dozens
of Palestinians in that area who were protesting the incursion of Al-Aqsa and
the planned march.
The repeated incursions have enraged Jordanians from
all walks of life, with calls on the government to take real measures in order
to protect the holy sites.
Seventy-six Lower House deputies pressed the
government to respond to the storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque by taking measures to
hold the Israeli occupation forces accountable.
“I warn the world of the danger of the extremist
Zionists carrying out the march amid calls to storm Al-Aqsa Mosque,” MP Khalil
Attieh told
Jordan News.
He warned against “dangerous statements made by the
organizers of the march and their threats to demolish the Dome of the Rock.” He
stressed that the matter “has become very dangerous, as extremists may carry
out their threats in light of the presence of a Zionist government that
sponsors them, as the head of this government is the biggest supporter of this
march.”
Secretary-General of the Islamic Action Front Murad
Al-Adayleh told
Jordan News that “these behaviors indicate a lack of
respect by the Zionists for Arabs and Muslims.” He warned of “an outbreak of a
major regional war due to the turmoil caused by the planned march”.
Former prime minister Taher Al-Masri told
Jordan
News that the planned march and the storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque are
confirmation that “the Israeli government intends to seize Al-Haram Al-Sharif
and Judaize Jerusalem, especially after Israel declared that all Palestinian
lands belong to the Jews.”
He said this is an additional step in a series of
steps that Israel has taken to seize Palestinians lands and that the
Palestinians are resisting the Zionist expansion without the support of Arabs
or non-Arabs.
He stressed that
the Jordanian government is doing what it can and that Jordan alone cannot
protect the Palestinians without the support of Arab and Muslim countries.
Read more Features
Jordan News
.jpg)
.jpg)
