AMMAN — Jordanian diplomacy was active Sunday in a push to
end the Israeli aggressions in Jerusalem, as activists took to the streets in a
show of solidarity.
اضافة اعلان
Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi held a series of calls with
peers and an international official to discuss the latest developments in the holy city, which saw Jewish settlers
attacks Palestinian homes and young
Palestinians gathering to repel the
racist attacks.
According to the
Foreign Ministry, Safadi and his
Palestinian counterpart Riyad Maliki “sounded the alarm on what they described
as the ‘grave’ developments in Jerusalem stirred by Israeli provocations in the
occupied city.
Safadi, who is also the
Kingdom’s deputy prime minister, and
Maliki discussed over the phone the situation in Jerusalem after the unrest
that gripped the city due to Israeli “provocative measures” and Jewish
settlers’ attacks. They urged an immediate halt to the attacks and measures that
might lead to further tension and violence.
The top diplomats called on the international community to
intervene and pressure the Israeli authorities into tackling the issue of
“extremist and racist” organizations in Jerusalem’s Old City. They emphasized that
Israel must respect the sanctity of the holy month of Ramadan by lifting all
measures restrictive to Palestinian Muslims.
Safadi also talked to his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shukry,
and both issued similar remarks, calling for a halt to the Israeli practices,
an international intervention and push towards a peaceful and just solution to
the Palestinian issue.
The foreign minister conveyed the message to UN Special
Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland. The conversation
focused on the need to stop the provocative Israeli measures and extremist
groups’ attacks on Jerusalemites in the Old City, and restoring calm in the
city.
Safadi stressed the need to make every possible effort to
stop these provocations and to ensure the right of Jerusalemites to access to
the sacred Al-Aqsa Mosque /Al-Haram Al-Sharif, in order to defuse tension and
restore calm.
Safadi condemned the extremist group’s attacks on
Jerusalemites in the Old City, which have escalated since the beginning of the
blessed month of Ramadan, and stressed the importance of international efforts
to protect the Palestinians and ensure that Israel carries out its
responsibilities as the occupying power, according to a ministry statement.
Safadi and Winsland agreed to continue coordination in
efforts aimed at stopping the deterioration of the situation and the threat it
poses to security and stability, and work out the necessary action to return to
negotiations as the only way to achieve peace.
Meanwhile in Jordan, attacks on Palestinians in Jerusalem by
Israeli forces inspired peaceful shows of solidarity on Sunday evening in
cities around Jordan.
“Our protest comes under the title of supporting and
backing-up the Palestinian movement which is rising up today,” Bashar Al-Assaf,
member of the Political office at the Jordanian Democratic Popular Unity Party,
told Jordan News during a demonstration held in Amman on Sunday.
Dozens of youth from different Jordanian political parties
held signs to express their solidarity with Palestinians facing violence in
Jerusalem. Their slogans called for the expulsion of the Israeli ambassador
from Amman, criticized the Wadi Araba agreement , and stressed that “Palestine
is not alone.”
The Israeli Authorities attacks on Palestinians continued
for the third day in a row in Jerusalem and have resulted in multiple injuries
among young Palestinians. Occupied Jerusalem is a flashpoint for the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Jordanian intellectuals joined the voices condemning the
occupation forces’ practices.
“There is an
occupation going on since 1967, and it is the right of people who are under
occupation in international law to fight and protest this occupation,” Hassan
Abu Nemeh, former Jordanian ambassador to the United Nations, told Jordan
News in an interview over the phone.
“These practices have been ongoing for a long time; they are
not new,” Abu Nemeh said, describing “the break-ins at Al-Aqsa Mosque,
challenging wills of Palestinians, Arabs, and Muslims as well as breaching the
terms of the treaty with Jordan and breaching the Hashemite guardianship over
the Islamic and Christian holy sites.”
“The actions undertaken by extremist settlers are
unacceptable,” Jamil Nemri, a former representative and president of the
Palestinian committee at the lower house, told Jordan News in an
interview over the phone.
“We are in full solidarity with Jerusalemites and support
their situation,” Nemri said.
He added that the Palestinian people need real solidarity
from Arabs, urging Arab countries that have normalized their relations with
Israel should review their positions on the issue.
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