{"id":488,"date":"2023-01-23T17:47:58","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T17:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/?p=488"},"modified":"2023-01-23T17:51:24","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T17:51:24","slug":"israel-outraged-by-irresponsible-visit-of-western-envoys-to-al-aqsa-mosque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/israel-outraged-by-irresponsible-visit-of-western-envoys-to-al-aqsa-mosque\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel Outraged by \u2018Irresponsible\u2019 Visit of Western Envoys to Al-Aqsa Mosque"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"selectionShareable\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Israeli is angry that EU and other Western envoys visited Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem last Wednesday without prior coordination with the occupation authorities,\u00a0<em>Israel Hayom<\/em>\u00a0reported on Sunday. According to the newspaper, the delegation included around 30 diplomats from EU countries, Canada, Australia and Argentina.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Instead, it was reported, they coordinated with the Islamic Waqf of Jerusalem, which is the religious administrative body covering the Noble Sanctuary of Al-Aqsa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We joined like-minded diplomats at Al-Aqsa Mosque to demonstrate support for Jordanian custodianship of Christian and Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem,&#8221;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UKinJerusalem\/status\/1616042520537972739?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a>\u00a0the British Consulate in the holy city. &#8220;We continue to promote historic status quo arrangements which permit all three Abrahamic faiths to worship in the Old City.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We joined like-minded diplomats at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AlAqsa?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AlAqsa<\/a> Mosque to demonstrate support for Jordanian\ud83c\uddef\ud83c\uddf4 Custodianship of Christian\u271d\ufe0f and Muslim\u262a\ufe0f holy sites in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Jerusalem?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Jerusalem<\/a>. We continue to promote historic Status Quo arrangements which permit all three Abrahamic faiths to worship in the Old City. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/t9hHg5OSB2\">pic.twitter.com\/t9hHg5OSB2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; UKinJerusalem\ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7 (@UKinJerusalem) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UKinJerusalem\/status\/1616042520537972739?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 19, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The newspaper reported a spokesperson of the Israeli Foreign Ministry expressing outrage. &#8220;This visit was irresponsible and could have led to provocation and incitement,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The foreign ministry will continue to engage via diplomatic channels in order to prevent steps that could lead to escalation and has made it clear to the EU that it does not take it lightly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"54u5ldmnX0c\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jordan slams Israel after envoy held up at Al-Aqsa mosque\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/54u5ldmnX0c?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe joined like-minded diplomats at Al-Aqsa Mosque to demonstrate support for Jordanian custodianship of Christian and Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem,\u201d tweeted the British Consulate in the holy city.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"ieCqP969HmA\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Israel&#039;s ally US criticises minister Ben-Gvir&#039;s move to visit Al-Aqsa mosque | English News | WION\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ieCqP969HmA?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe continue to promote historic status quo arrangements which permit all three Abrahamic faiths to worship in the Old City.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli newspaper cited a spokesperson of the Israeli Foreign Ministry expressing outrage. \u201d<\/p>\n<p>This visit was irresponsible and could have led to provocation and incitement,\u201d he reportedly said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe foreign ministry will continue to engage via diplomatic channels in order to prevent steps that could lead to escalation and has made it clear to the EU that it does not take it lightly.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"BIdjic55jTE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ilan Pappe and Awad Abdelfattah on \u2018One Democratic State\u2019\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BIdjic55jTE?start=219&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israeli is angry that EU and other Western envoys visited Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem last Wednesday without prior coordination with the occupation authorities,\u00a0Israel Hayom\u00a0reported on Sunday. According to the newspaper, the delegation included around 30 diplomats from EU countries, Canada, Australia and Argentina. Instead, it was reported, they coordinated with the Islamic Waqf of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":489,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-video","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"post_format-post-format-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":491,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488\/revisions\/491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diplomatique.ma\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}