Jordan’s foreign minister says the kingdom wants the situation at the Temple Mount returned to the way it was before the recent crisis over security measures there.
Hala Akhbar, a news site linked to the country’s military, quotes Ayman Safadi saying Jordan’s King Abdullah II had “led the crisis in a way to preserve the status quo, and revoking all the new measures on the ground.”
Jordan, the Muslim custodian of the shrine and mosque in the Haram al-Sharif compound atop the Mount, has played a key role in trying to end the crisis at the holy site, sacred to both Muslims and Jews.
Israel set up metal detectors outside the compound after three Arab gunmen killed two Israeli policemen there on July 14. The move incensed many in the Muslim world. Israel removed the devices early Tuesday after talks with Jordan.
Israel says new security arrangements based on “advanced technology” will be installed instead.
— AP
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