Hala News – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriate Affairs condemned in the strongest terms the provocative incursions carried out by Israeli officials, the latest of which was the storming of the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque/the Holy Mosque by an Israeli member of the Knesset, a flagrant violation of international law, a condemnable escalation and an unacceptable provocation that must stop.

The Ministry’s official spokesman, Ambassador Fouad Al-Majali, affirmed the Kingdom’s absolute rejection and strong condemnation of the continued incursions by extremist Israeli officials into the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque/the Holy Mosque, as a blatant violation of the historical and legal status quo in the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque/the Holy Mosque, and an unacceptable attempt to divide it temporally and spatially, and a desecration of its sanctity, stressing that Israel has no sovereignty over the occupied city of Jerusalem. Its Islamic and Christian sanctities.

Al-Majali warned of the consequences of the continued provocative and illegal violations of the Islamic and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem, calling on the international community to take a strict international position obligating Israel, as the occupying power, to stop its ongoing violations and illegal practices towards the Islamic and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem and its violations of the sanctity of the holy places, which is a continuation of the Israeli government’s extremist policy aimed at continuing the dangerous escalation and illegal unilateral measures in the occupied West Bank.

Al-Majali reiterated that the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, with its entire area of ​​144 dunams, is a pure place of worship for Muslims, and that the Jerusalem Endowments Administration and the Affairs of the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, which is affiliated with the Jordanian Ministry of Endowments, Islamic Affairs and Holy Places, is the legal body with exclusive jurisdiction to manage the affairs of the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque/the Holy Mosque, and to regulate entry to it.

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