Jordan said Sunday it has protested Israeli violations at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque as hundreds of Israeli settlers forced their way into the site.
In a statement government spokeswoman Jumana Ghunaimat said the Jordanian Embassy in Tel Aviv has lodged a formal diplomatic protest with the Israeli Foreign Ministry over Israeli violations at al-Aqsa Mosque.
“Such condemned and rejected practices…violate the sanctity of this holy site and provoke the sentiments of worshippers and Muslims all over the world” she said in the statement cited by the official Petra news agency.
Ghunaimat said the Israeli practices at al-Aqsa “are in violation of Israel’s obligations as an occupying force under international law” calling on Tel Aviv to “immediately halt” the practice.
Earlier Sunday more than 1000 Israeli settlers forced their way into the Aqsa Mosque under the protection of Israeli police.
The move came days after the Knesset (Israel’s parliament) passed a controversial law that recognizes Israel as the “nation-state of the Jewish people”.
