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By Laith Joneidi
AMMAN
Jordan said on Sunday it protested against Israeli violations at the Al-Aqsa complex in East Jerusalem, as hundreds of Jewish settlers made their way to the city. site of the flash point.
In a statement, government spokeswoman Jumana Ghunaimat said that the Jordanian Embbady in Tel Aviv had filed an official diplomatic protest against the Israeli Foreign Ministry regarding Israeli violations in Israel. Aqsa.
"Such practices condemned and rejected … violate the sanctity of this holy place and provoke the feelings of worshipers and Muslims around the world," she said in a statement quoted by the newspaper as saying. official news agency Petra.
Ghunaimat stated that Israeli practices in Al-Aqsa "were in violation of Israel's obligations as an occupying force under international law", then calling Tel Aviv "to stop immediately" the practice.
Earlier on Sunday, more than 1,000 Israeli settlers entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque under the protection of the Israeli police.
Addressing the Anadolu Agency, Firas al-Dibis, a head of the Jordanian Authority for the Management of Religious Property in Jerusalem, said that the Israeli police had taken action. badault the camp before the settlers and proceeded to search and excavate.
The move comes days after the Knesset (Israel's parliament) pbaded a controversial law that recognizes Israel as "the nation-state of the Jewish people."
For Muslims, Al-Aqsa is the third most sacred site in the world. The Jews, for their part, refer to the area as the "Temple Mount", claiming that it was the site of two Jewish temples in ancient times.
Israel occupied East Jerusalem during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. It annexed the entire city in 1980, claiming it as the capital of the Jewish state – a movement never recognized by the international community.
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