Israel is working to change the status quo at the Al-Aqsa mosque east of Jerusalem, Prime Minister Mohammad Ashtiyeh said on Monday.
At the opening of the weekly cabinet meeting in Ramallah, Ashtiyeh said that Israel "is playing a dangerous political game related to Al-Aqsa Mosque through repeated attacks by settlers in an attempt to break the status quo."
He said that "President Mahmoud Abbas and the government are following this process on a daily and aggressive basis, and there is coordination with the brothers in Jordan," which oversees the Islamic holy sites in Jerusalem.
The speaker of the Jordanian House of Representatives, Atef Tarawneh, has called on the Jordanian government to send a serious message embodying a clear threat to the state of "occupation", saying that "peace between us is threatened in the light of the continued aggressions on Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa."
The Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Affairs announced on Sunday that it had summoned the Israeli ambassador in Amman to confirm the kingdom´s condemnation and rejection of Israeli "violations" in Al-Aqsa Mosque.
In the same context, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry warned of the ruling right in Israel, and in the light of the electoral competition, to "commit more violations and crimes against the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the imposition of spatial division."
The ministry said in a statement that hundreds of Judaic projects are being implemented with the aim of changing the status quo in Jerusalem, its neighborhoods, its surroundings, the Old City and its sanctities, especially the Al-Aqsa Mosque.
She added that "this Judaization campaign is escalating in the light of unprecedented and unlimited American support and American decisions completely biased to the occupation and his version, especially President Donald Trump´s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel."
