Palestinian women Sunday attend a rally in solidarity with Jerusalem in Gaza City, following the clashes erupted between Palestinians and Israeli forces at Al Aqsa Mosque compound during the weekend (AP photo)

In a memorandum presented to the conference sent to The Jordan Times, the delegation said: “We must exert every possible political, diplomatic, legal and financial effort to address such violations.”

Held in Doha in cooperation with the Arab League, the two-day conference seeks to highlight the legal status and the history of the holy Arab city, besides addressing measures that can be taken to deal with Israel’s settlement activity, the landgrab in East Jerusalem and acts of aggression against Al Aqsa Mosque.

Highlighting the Kingdom’s efforts to safeguard the holy city and to prevent Israel from altering its Arab identity, the memo said: “The government of Jordan, through the foreign ministry, closely monitors everything that happens in the holy city and undertakes every possible measure in its power to safeguard and protect it.”

Historically and under the 1994 peace treaty with Israel, Jordan is officially the custodian of the Muslim holy sites in the occupied city. The 550 awqaf officials tending to Al Haram Al Sharif are on the government’s payroll.

The Jordanian delegation emphasised the efforts of the Jerusalem Awqaf Department which works under Jordan’s Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs in confronting the outrageous acts of the occupation authorities against Al Aqsa Mosque and the awqaf employees.

The department runs and safeguards more than 80 mosques in Jerusalem and oversees everything concerning the lands, real estates and waqf properties which amount to 50 per cent of Jerusalem properties, according to the memo.

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