AMMAN, Jordan – Jordan’s King Abdullah II expressed on Sunday a dedication to “safeguard” Jerusalem’s holy websites, in a gathering in Amman with Muslim and Christian spiritual leaders from town.
An announcement from the royal courtroom stated the king advised the delegation, led by Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas, that Jordan “will always be with you”.
“It is the duty of every Muslim to deter Israeli escalations against… holy sites in Jerusalem,” the king stated in keeping with the assertion.
The assembly follows tensions with the Israeli authorities over a minister’s remarks denying the existence of the Palestinian folks and fears of a flare-up within the Israeli-Palestinian battle through the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, which started on March 23.
The king touted a longtime dedication to preserving “peace and harmony” at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound — Islam’s third holiest website which Jordan administers. It is constructed on high of what Jews name the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest website.
On Friday, Israeli police shot lifeless an Arab Israeli medical scholar on the compound. The drive stated he had grabbed and fired an officer’s gun, a declare Mohammed al-Asibi’s household rejects.
King Abdullah additionally hailed “Jerusalemites’… efforts to safeguard” the holy websites and “stressed the need to stop the displacement of Christians, as well as the repeated attacks on churches, religious figures and Christian property in Jerusalem”, in keeping with the assertion.
On Friday, church leaders in Jerusalem appealed to the Israeli authorities to make sure Christians are capable of worship freely throughout Easter and its run-up, expressing concern at mounting violence and acts of desecration over the previous 12 months.
During Sunday’s assembly the Jordanian king “called on the international community to take a stand against the exclusionary and racist statements made recently by some Israeli officials”, the assertion stated.
Last month, the overseas ministry in Amman stated it had summoned Israel’s ambassador to obtain a “strongly worded letter of protest” following a widely-condemned speech by far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich.
At an occasion in Paris, Smotrich stated “there isn’t a Palestinian people”. He spoke from a lectern which featured a map of so-called Greater Israel, together with the areas of the occupied West Bank and Jordan.
Jordan in 1994 turned the second Arab nation to acknowledge and signal a peace treaty with neighboring Israel, after Egypt. —Agence France-Presse
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