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Jordan has called on the Israeli government to immediately cease all violations at the al-Aqsa compound and has condemned Israel’s Minister of Strategic Affairs and Public Security, Gilad Erdan’s proposal to change the “status quo” of the Muslim worship site. <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n As<\/span> reported<\/span><\/a> by the Palestinian News Agency WAFA, the Jordanian ministry’s Secretary-General Zaid Lozi requested Israeli envoy Amir Weissbrod to pass a letter to the Israeli Government in which Jordan demands “immediate cessation of Israeli violations and any attempts to change the status quo on the holy site”.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In an interview with Israeli Radio 90, Israeli Minister Gilad Erdan <\/span>stated<\/span><\/a> “I think there is an injustice in the status quo that has existed since [19]67”. The minister continued suggesting that “We [Israelis] need to work to change [the status quo] so in the future Jews, with the help of God, can pray at the Temple Mount”.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n After Israel occupied East Jerusalem, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in 1967, Jerusalem’s Muslim and Christian sites, among them the al-Aqsa compound, have been under the administration of the Jordanian Islamic Endowment. According to the arrangement, Jews are forbidden from praying at al-Aqsa.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In the letter presented to Israeli envoy to Amman, Jordan’s Foreign Ministry warned that any change to the status quo will have “serious consequences” as<\/span> reported<\/span><\/a> by the Middle East Monitor. <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Israel’s Foreign Minister Yisrael Katz stood by Erdan’s statements, suggesting Israel is sovereign on the status of Jerusalem. In this sense, he<\/span> asserted<\/span><\/a> that “it is Minister Erdan’s right to put a suggestion on the table for discussion” and concluded that the matter is ultimately for Israel to decide as “the sovereignty [of Jerusalem] is the State of Israel’s”. <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n