{"id":43748,"date":"2020-09-08T22:23:45","date_gmt":"2020-09-08T22:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=43748"},"modified":"2020-09-08T22:23:45","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T22:23:45","slug":"houthis-risk-hampering-covid-19-efforts-after-closing-yemens-sanaa-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=43748","title":{"rendered":"Houthis risk hampering COVID-19 efforts after closing Yemen\u2019s Sanaa airport"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\nAMMAN: Jordan has condemned what it described as \u201ccontinuous Israeli violations\u201d at Jerusalem\u2019s Al-Aqsa Mosque after Israeli security personnel used a ladder to install loudspeakers on one of the mosque\u2019s minarets.<\/p>\n

\nForeign ministry spokesperson Deifallah Fayez said the Israeli forces\u2019 \u201cabsurd practices\u201d at the UNESCO world heritage site are \u201cirresponsible and constitute a provocation of the feelings of Muslims around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nAl-Aqsa Mosque is the third holiest site in Islam.<\/p>\n

\nThe ministry submitted an official protest after the work was carried out on Sunday despite objections by mosque authorities.<\/p>\n

\nA ministry statement called on Israel \u201cto stop its violations and provocations, and respect the authority of the Jerusalem Awqaf and Aqsa Affairs Department.\u201d<\/p>\n

\nFayez said that Israeli measures are \u201ca flagrant violation\u201d of its commitments under international law.<\/p>\n

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\nAl-Aqsa Mosque is a \u201cpure\u201d Islamic holy site and the Jerusalem awqaf department is \u201cthe sole authority\u201d tasked with supervising its affairs, he said.<\/p>\n

\nFayez urged the international community to exert pressure on Israel to halt its violations at the site.<\/p>\n

\nJordan also denounced Israel\u2019s arrest of several staff of the Awqaf and Islamic Affairs Department, which is affiliated with Jordan.<\/p>\n

\nWasfi Kailani, executive director of the Hashemite Fund for the Restoration of Al-Aqsa, told Arab News that the Israeli action violates a century-old agreement that prevents external intervention in Islam\u2019s holy places.<\/p>\n

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\nJordanian waqf officials based in Jerusalem are reluctant to talk with the Israelis and prefer any issue regarding the Al-Aqsa mosque to be handled on a diplomatic basis. Israel accepts that Jordan has a say in the running of the mosque.<\/p>\n

\nIn the wake of the arrests, Jordan\u2019s Awqaf Minister Mohammad Khalileh condemned what is said were \u201cattacks by the Israeli occupation forces on the staff of his ministry.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\u201cAll those who work in the Jerusalem waqf department and the guards of Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Awqad Council are employees of the Jordanian Ministry of Islamic Waqf,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\nMeanwhile, 250 Jerusalem business owners are expected to receive a\u00a0$1,000 cash stipend earmarked to support Palestinian businesses, while others will receive $2,500 to help deal with the economic loss due to coronavirus, Hijazi Risheq, head of the Jerusalem Merchants Council, told Arab News.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AMMAN: Jordan has condemned what it described as \u201ccontinuous Israeli violations\u201d at Jerusalem\u2019s Al-Aqsa Mosque after Israeli security personnel used a ladder to install loudspeakers on one of the mosque\u2019s minarets. Foreign ministry spokesperson Deifallah Fayez said the Israeli forces\u2019 \u201cabsurd practices\u201d at the UNESCO world heritage site are \u201cirresponsible and constitute a provocation of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43748","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=43748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}