Jordan’s ministry of foreign affairs has strongly denounced Israeli far-right security minister Itamar Ben Gvir’s desecration of the Aqsa Mosque under police guard on Sunday morning.
“Ben Gvir’s break-in of the Aqsa Mosque and his desecration of its sanctity are a provocative and reprehensible step and a dangerous and unacceptable act of escalation” spokesman for the ministry Sinan al-Majali said in a statement on Sunday.
Spokesman Majali also called Ben Gvir’s entry to the Mosque as a “flagrant violation of the international law and the historical and legal status quo of the holy sites in Jerusalem.”
The spokesman warned that the Israeli persistence in its violations and aggressive practices against the Islamic and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem in addition to other unilateral measures in the occupied Palestinian territories portends the occurrence of more tension and dangerous events that must be addressed immediately by the international community.
The spokesman underlined that “the Aqsa Mosque with its entire 144 dunums of land belongs exclusively to the Muslim nation” adding that “Jordan’s Jerusalem Awqaf and Aqsa Mosque Affairs Administration has exclusive jurisdiction over the management of the Aqsa Mosque and the regulation of entry to the site in accordance with the international law and the status quo in the holy city.”
He called on Israel “the occupying power” to immediately cease all the practices and violations at the Aqsa Mosque and to respect its Islamic stature and the authority of the Islamic Awqaf Administration in Jerusalem.
