Jordan’s king warns in call with Biden of Israeli ‘hostile acts’ in Jerusalem

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Jordan’s king warns in call with Biden of ******** ‘hostile acts’ in Jerusalem

(Reuters) – Jordan’s King Abdullah, in a phone call on Monday with U.S. President Joe Biden, warned of what he called “hostile acts” by ******** settlers against Palestinians and “unilateral measures” that threaten the status quo of Jerusalem’s holy sites.

King Abdullah’s Hashemite dynasty is custodian of the ******* and ********** holy sites in Jerusalem. Last month, ******** Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said there was no change in policy regarding a Jerusalem site also sacred to Muslims, after a far-right cabinet minister said Jews could pray there.

The compound, in Jerusalem’s walled Old City, houses Islam’s third-holiest shrine, Al-Aqsa mosque, and is also revered in Judaism as the Temple Mount, a vestige of two ancient temples.

Under a delicate decades-old “status quo” arrangement with ******* authorities, ******* allows Jews to visit but refrain from prayer. The site is at the heart of the ********-************ conflict, and suggestions that ******* would alter rules about religious observance there have led to ********* in the past.

“His Majesty warned of extremist settler ********* against Palestinians, as well as unilateral ******** measures that undermine the prospects of peace and target the historical and legal status quo of Islamic and ********** holy sites in Jerusalem, which may fuel ********* in the region,” the Jordanian royal court said in a statement.

King Abdullah also discussed with Biden the need for de-escalation in the region and “establishing comprehensive calm to prevent a regional war”, the royal court added.

(Reporting by Hatem Maher and Jaidaa Taha; Editing by Gareth Jones)

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