The Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates condemned, on Thursday, the storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque by members of the Israeli Knesset, coinciding with the provocative actions carried out by extremists during their incursions, which are carried out under the protection of the Israeli occupation police. The Ministry considered the incident a dangerous and unacceptable escalation, a rejected provocation, and a violation of the sanctity of Al-Aqsa Mosque and the historical and legal status quo there.

The official spokesman for the Ministry, Sufian Al-Qudah, affirmed the Kingdom's absolute rejection and strong condemnation of the repeated incursions by members of the Israeli Knesset and large numbers of extremists into Al-Aqsa Mosque. He said that this represents an exacerbation of the dangerous situation in the occupied Palestinian territories, a violation of Israel's obligations, the occupying power, in occupied Jerusalem, and an attempt to impose temporal and spatial division. He stressed that Israel has no sovereignty over the occupied city of Jerusalem and its Islamic and Christian holy sites.

The judges called for a firm international stance obligating Israel, as the occupying power, to cease its ongoing violations and illegal practices against Islamic and Christian holy sites in Jerusalem, and its violations of the sanctity of holy sites.

He reiterated that the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, with its entire area of 144 dunams, is a place of worship exclusively for Muslims, and that the Jerusalem Endowments and Al-Aqsa Mosque Affairs Department, affiliated with the Jordanian Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs and Holy Places, is the legal entity with exclusive jurisdiction to administer the affairs of the Noble Sanctuary and regulate entry to it.