AMMAN, June 2, 2025 (WAFA) – The Jordanian Ministry of Foreign and Expatriate Affairs strongly condemned today the storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque by extremist Israeli colonists, calling the provocative actions a blatant violation of international law and the legal and historical status quo in Jerusalem and its holy sites.

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Sufian Qudah reiterated the kingdom’s unequivocal rejection of repeated colonists’ incursions into the holy site, denouncing them as provocative and inflammatory acts that aim to impose new temporal and spatial divisions at the mosque.

Qudah stressed that Israel has no sovereignty over the occupied West Bank or the Islamic and Christian holy sites in East Jerusalem.

He warned of the serious consequences of ongoing violations, which, he said, would not be possible without the protection and facilitation of the Israeli police, calling on Israel, as the occupying power, to immediately halt its irresponsible and dangerous practices.

Qudah emphasized that the entire 144-dunum compound of Al-Aqsa Mosque is a place of worship solely for Muslims, underscoring that the Jerusalem Awqaf Department, under Jordan’s Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs, is the sole legal authority responsible for the management and regulation of the mosque’s affairs.

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