The Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates issued condemned on Tuesday the incursion into Al-Aqsa Mosque by Israel’s far-right Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir. The ministry denounced the act as a blatant desecration of the sacred site and a dangerous escalation, carried out under the protection of Israeli occupation forces.
The ministry described the incursion—and the ongoing settler invasions—as a flagrant violation of the legal and historical status quo governing the Al-Haram Al-Sharif compound.
It reaffirmed that Israel has no sovereignty over occupied Jerusalem or its Islamic and Christian holy sites, emphasizing that such provocations are unacceptable and legally void.
Ministry spokesperson Fouad Al-Majali reiterated Jordan’s categorical rejection of these repeated violations, facilitated by the occupation police, and led by extremist figures within the Israeli government.
He warned that such actions constitute grave breaches of international law and international humanitarian law and represent an attempt to impose a de facto spatial and temporal division of the mosque through force.
Al-Majali cautioned against the consequences of continued settler and ministerial incursions into the compound, calling on Israel—as the occupying power—to immediately halt all violations and provocative practices.
He described these actions as part of a broader campaign by the Israeli government to escalate its illegal and unilateral measures in the occupied West Bank and to undermine the sanctity of Islamic and Christian sites in Jerusalem.
He reaffirmed that the entirety of Al-Aqsa Mosque’s 144-dunum area is an exclusive place of worship for Muslims, and that the Jerusalem Islamic Waqf, under Jordan’s Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs, holds sole legal authority over its administration and access.
Earlier Tuesday, Ben-Gvir led a group of colonial settlers in storming the mosque compound, where they conducted provocative tours in its eastern courtyard—again under the protection of Israeli occupation forces.
