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AMMAN: Jordan’s foreign ministry summoned the Israeli ambassador to convey a strongly-worded protest over the detention of two Jordanian citizens in Israel.
The ministry urged Israel to respect their legal and human rights and allow the Jordanian embassy in Tel Aviv to visit them as soon as possible.
The ministry demanded the ambassador deliver an urgent message to his authorities to release the two citizens, saying that Israeli authorities bear responsibility for their safety.
Spokesman Dhaifallah Ali Al-Fayez said: “The ministry will continue to follow developments in this matter, in coordination with the embassy in Tel Aviv, to provide the necessary legal and humanitarian support, stressing that the embassy in Tel Aviv is in constant contact with the appointed lawyer who met the citizens on Monday.”
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Palestinians and left-wing activists protest against the expulsion of Palestinian families from their homes in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. April 16, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
RAMALLAH, West Bank Jordan’s top diplomat on Wednesday handed the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah documents intended to help prevent Israel from evicting Palestinian families from part of East Jerusalem, he said.
Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi made the trip to the West Bank after an Israeli court reportedly gave the families until May 2 to leave their homes in the predominantly Palestinian neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah or be evicted.
Jordan administered the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, until the 1967 Six Day War and remains the custodian of Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem.
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Kosovo’s Ambassador Ines Demiri (L) and Gil Haskel, head of Israel’s foreign ministry protocol, unveil the plate at the opening of the Kosovar Embassy in Jerusalem on March 15, 2021. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP) Asharq Al-Awsat
The Palestinians on Monday condemned Kosovo for opening an embassy in Jerusalem, after it became the first Muslim-majority territory to recognize the disputed city as Israel’s capital.
Kosovo, which formally opened the embassy on Sunday, made the move in exchange for Israel recognizing the independence it declared in 2008 following a war with Serbia in the 1990s.
The Palestinians, who claim the eastern part of Jerusalem as the capital of their future state, have fiercely criticized Kosovo over the move.