{"id":19626,"date":"2018-10-24T04:24:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T04:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19626"},"modified":"2018-10-24T04:24:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T04:24:34","slug":"jordans-king-urged-to-bolster-unesco-resolutions-on-jerusalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19626","title":{"rendered":"Jordan\u2019s king urged to bolster UNESCO resolutions on Jerusalem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1392896\/middle-east\" readability=\"86\">\n<p>\nAMMAN: Religious and political figures in Jerusalem urged Jordan\u2019s king to coordinate with the Palestinian president and the UN to obligate Israel to implement resolutions passed by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) regarding the city.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe call came in an open letter to King Abdullah in his capacity as custodian of Jerusalem\u2019s Muslim and Christian holy sites.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cIf a UNESCO fact-finding mission arrives in Jerusalem too late, it may not find real facts to be documented,\u201d the letter said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cThe mission will find only an altered status quo, faked history, and important monuments and archaeological layers would be removed or Judaized.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nWasfi Kailani, director of the Hashemite Fund for the Restoration of Al-Aqsa Mosque, told Arab News: \u201cThe issue of Jerusalem is always a high priority for the king, and Jordan will be studying the appeal from all aspects before making a decision as to the next steps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nHanna Issa, secretary-general of the Muslim-Christian Committee and a signatory to the letter, told Arab News: \u201cThis appeal reflects clear Christian-Muslim unity in the face of continued and daily Israeli violations, especially in and around Al-Aqsa Mosque.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nHe expressed hope that the issue will reach the International Criminal Court (ICC), but said: \u201cUnfortunately, US hegemony has rendered many of these institutions totally impotent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nThe latest UNESCO resolution on Jerusalem \u2014 sponsored by Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Oman, Qatar and Sudan \u2014 said: \u201cThe Old City of Jerusalem and its walls, a site inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List and on the List of World Heritage in Danger, is the sacred city of the three monotheistic religions \u2014 Judaism, Christianity and Islam.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\nIt reaffirmed that \u201call legislative and administrative measures and actions taken by Israel, the occupying power, which have altered or purport to alter the character and status of the Holy City of Jerusalem\u2026 are null and void and must be rescinded forthwith.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMMAN: Religious and political figures in Jerusalem urged Jordan\u2019s king to coordinate with the Palestinian president and the UN to obligate Israel to implement resolutions passed by the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) regarding the city. The call came in an open letter to King Abdullah in his capacity as custodian of Jerusalem\u2019s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":19627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}