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One of the most aggressively excavated sites is that of Silwan, a neighborhood just outside the Jerusalem old city walls and south of Aqsa Mosque (AFP) Ramalla- Kifah Zboun
Palestine is deeply concerned over Israeli excavations under Al-Aqsa Mosque, warning that they endanger its structures.
Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Mohammed Hussein, said that the Israeli excavations southwest of Al-Aqsa Mosque increased in the recent period to include multiple places at the same time.
Sheikh Hussein indicated the excavations are within Israel s Judaizing plans, warning that the occupation is exploiting the lockdown measures to carry out further digs.
Settlement expansion announced in West Bank, first since Gulf deals
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AMMAN: The Jerusalem District Court issued a temporary restraining order against the city’s Israeli-run municipality on Thursday, forcing the municipality to cease its conversion of the waqf-owned Al-Yousefieh cemetery into a park. In a press statement issued on Wednesday, the Jordanian Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson, Dhaifallah Fayez, reiterated Jordan’s “rejection and condemnation of the excavations and leveling works carried out by the Israeli authorities at the cemetery’s fence and stairs.” Jordan described the action as “desecration of graves” and called on the Israelis to immediately stop the operation. Wasfi Kailani, senior official on Jerusalem Affairs and director of the Hashemite Fund for the Restoration of Al-Aqsa Mosque, told Arab News, “The case is important because it sheds a light on the continued acts of desecration against a cemetery that is still being used these days by Jerusalem’s Muslims. This is a documented waqf property and the cemeter
Settlement expansion announced in West Bank, first since Gulf deals
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Israel has approved the construction of 2,166 new illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, ending an eight-month hiatus on expansion.
The expansion announcement comes less than a month after the United Arab Emirates and Israel normalised diplomatic relations, of which a stipulation saw Israel pledge to halt annexation of parts of the West Bank.
Jordanian Foreign Ministry spokesman Daifallah al-Fayez slammed the announcement in a statement, saying Israel’s plan is “a unilateral and illegal step that undermines the chances of a two-state solution”.
Al-Fayez urged the international community to put pressure on Israel to end its illegal activities that undermine peace efforts.
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File: Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, left, gives a joint statement with Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Monday, July 20, 2020. (Mohamad Torokman/Pool via AP)
The foreign ministers of Egypt, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority met in Cairo Saturday, reaffirming that the resolution to the Israel-Palestinian conflict must be based on the two-state solution.
“The overriding goal that we seek is to reach a just solution to the Palestinian issue in accordance with international decisions,” Egyptian FM Sameh Shoukri said in a statement at the meeting with Jordan’s Ayman al-Safadi and the Palestinian Authority’s Riyad al-Malki.
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