The American "Axios" website attributed US and Israeli officials as saying that the escalation of tensions and violence in Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem during the past few weeks has exacerbated the already strained relations between Jordan and Israel.

It is mentioned that Jordan's King Abdullah II is the custodian of the Islamic holy places in Jerusalem.

The site says: "The Al-Aqsa Mosque complex, also known as the Haram al-Sharif, is the third holiest site for Muslims, and it is also the holiest site for Jews, who call it the Temple Mount. This fact has long made the compound one of the most sensitive and explosive areas in the Middle East."

Israel, Jordan, the United States and other major players in the region have stepped up efforts to calm tensions ahead of the holy month of Ramadan, which also coincided with Passover.

The first two weeks of Ramadan were largely quiet, but the situation escalated last week when the Israeli occupation police raided the compound to remove the Palestinians who were inside Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Jordan strongly condemned the raid and held Israel responsible for the escalation. Since then, the Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has issued at least 11 statements and tweets condemning and criticizing Israel's policy toward the holy site.

Jordan initiated an emergency meeting of the League of Arab States and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. He also urged a meeting of the UN Security Council on the situation in Jerusalem. Israeli and American officials said the United States blocked a press release issued by the council condemning Israel.

The site says: "Tensions continued to escalate as the Jordanian and Israeli governments exchanged statements blaming each other for responsibility for the escalation, as Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi on Thursday accused Israel of unjustified aggression against peaceful Palestinian worshipers. He told CNN, "Israel is paying us to the abyss of violence and undermine the peace treaty with Jordan,” the Israeli Foreign Ministry responded, claiming that the Jordanian endowment, which runs the mosque, had not taken steps to stop the violence of Palestinian worshipers.

"We call on Jordan, through the Waqf guards, to immediately remove extremists planning riots from Al-Aqsa Mosque," the Israeli Foreign Ministry wrote on Twitter on Saturday evening, hours before the start of a major Jewish prayer. Israeli officials accused Safadi of stirring up tensions with his statements.

The site says that they "told Axios that the meetings between Safadi and a number of Israeli officials before Ramadan went well. But they accused him of taking an extreme stance when tensions began to escalate..and that Safadi acted as if he was the Jordanian Ben Gvir, in reference to the far-right Israeli Minister of National Security who provoked Tensions in the past, including in Jerusalem," according to the site.

Senior US officials said Safadi was angry and saw the Israeli police raid on the mosque as a provocation by the Israeli government.

The site notes that "behind the scenes, Israeli and American officials said that the Israeli government asked the United States and the UAE to ask the Jordanian government and Safadi in particular to calm down the rhetoric and work to calm the situation."

Jordanian and American officials said Safadi asked the Biden administration and the Emiratis to say the same to the Israelis.

And the site adds: “The Jordanians at a certain point refused to receive the messages sent to them by the United States and the United Arab Emirates, claiming that Israel was lying about what was happening in the mosque, and confirmed that they were only willing to hear from Israel directly that it was committed to stopping it. Status quo violations in the compound, The Biden administration and the Israeli government were concerned that tensions with Jordan would escalate the situation on Sunday, but prayers for Jews and Muslims alike ended quietly with no Israeli police raiding the mosque and no violence among Palestinian worshipers.

The report notes, “The Israelis told the United States after that that things did not explode because the Biden administration pressured Jordan and the endowment, and the Jordanians informed the United States that things did not explode because the Biden administration pressured Israel.”

Israeli officials say Safadi has in recent days refused to speak to Israeli government representatives and that tensions with the Jordanians remain high.