LONDON: Jordan’s Ministry of Foreign and Expatriate Affairs strongly condemned incursions by Jewish extremist settlers into Al-Aqsa Mosque on Thursday.
Hundreds of settlers entered the Al-Aqsa compound in East Jerusalem this week to celebrate the Jewish New Year, under the protection of Israeli police and accompanied by government officials.
The ministry’s spokesperson, Fouad Majali, reaffirmed Jordan’s “categorical” rejection and condemnation of settlers’ incursions and desecrations of Al-Aqsa Mosque.
He accused Israel of attempting to impose “new realities aimed at dividing the holy site spatially and temporally,” according to Petra news agency.
Majali added that the “reckless policies and practices of the extremist Israeli government (in Jerusalem) threaten to escalate the conflict globally.”
