Anti-Israel protests in Jordan

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Jordanian authorities have refused to permit a demonstration which the country's Islamic groups planned for Friday in reaction to the entry into the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem by Israeli police earlier this week, the Islamic Action Front (IAF) said Wednesday.

"The Amman Governor Samir Mobaydeen has rejected a request by Islamic leaders to organize the demonstration in downtown Amman after Friday prayers to condemn the desecration of al-Aqsa Mosque," an IAF statement said.

Mobaydeen did not cite any reason for the refusal but said that his decision was based on "the authority accorded to him by the law", it added.

Clashes broke out on Sunday between some 150 Muslim worshippers and police after a group of tourists entered the Temple Mount compound accompanied by a police force. The clashes, in which at least 15 Palestinians were injured and another 11 injured, sparked a series of angry reactions in Jordan and elsewhere in Arab and Islamic countries.

The Jordanian foreign ministry summoned the Israeli envoy to Amman following the clashes and handed him a strongly-worded protest.

Dozens of trade unionists and politicians staged a sit-in before the Trade Unions Complex on Monday calling for rupture of diplomatic ties with Israel and the cancellation of the peace treaty which the two countries signed in 1994.

Under the provisions of the peace treaty, Israel acknowledged Jordan's right to look after Islamic and Christian holy places in East Jerusalem, which Israel took control of in the Six-Day War in 1967.

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Amman - King Abdullah II of Jordan on Monday condemned (http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1505226.php/Jordan-s-king-blasts-Israel-s-provocative-measures-in-Jerusalem) Israel's 'provocative measures' in East Jerusalem and called for 'immediate' action by the world community to force the Jewish state to halt its violations of the sanctity of al-Aqsa Mosque.
The monarch made the remarks as he presided over an emergency meeting of Jordan's National Council of Policies (NCP) to discuss the latest unilateral Israeli measures in East Jerusalem, which Israel captured from Jordan in the 1967 Middle East war.
The meeting was the culmination of a series of reactions by Jordan to the breaking into al-Aqsa Mosque at least twice by Israeli troops over the last couple of weeks that sparked clashes with Palestinian worshippers.
Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh on Monday summoned the Amman ambassadors of the UN Security Council permanent members - the United States, Britain, China, France and Russia - asking their governments to immediately intervene to force Israel to stop sending troops into al-Aqsa Mosque. He also asked for a halt to Israeli demolition of Palestinian houses with the aim of changing East Jerusalem's demographic structure and a stop to settlement building.
'Jordan categorically rejects Israel's provocative steps, which could derail efforts being exerted to arrive at a peaceful settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and jeopardize security and stability in the region,' a royal court statement quoted the king as telling the NCP.
Under the 1994 peace treaty between the two neighbours, Israel acknowledged Jordan's right to look after both the Islamic and Christian holy places in Jerusalem, which is still considered by the United Nations as an occupied territory.