Jordan condemns Ben Gvir’s storming of Aqsa Mosque

• Jordan condemned 'Israeli' minister Ben-Gvir’s Al-Aqsa intrusion as a violation of international law.
• The kingdom urged 'Israel' to halt these provocative acts and desecration of Jerusalem’s holy sites.

Jordan has strongly condemned ‘Israeli’ far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir’s recent intrusion to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, calling it a blatant violation of international law and an unacceptable provocation. 

The ministry stressed that ‘Israel’ has no sovereignty over occupied Jerusalem or its Islamic and Christian holy sites.

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Jordan’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson, Fuad Majali, reiterated the kingdom’s firm rejection of the minister’s repeated incursions, facilitated by ‘Israeli’ police, describing them as a clear violation of the historical and legal status of the site and an attempt to impose temporal and spatial division. 

Majali called on ’Israel’ to halt these violations and provocative acts by extremist members of the government. 

He described them as part of a broader policy of escalation and illegal unilateral measures in the occupied West Bank and a continued desecration of Jerusalem’s Islamic and Christian holy sites.