Amman, Aug. 5 (Petra) – Jordan hosted a meeting Wednesday to discuss
the escalating Israeli measures and violations in occupied Jerusalem
and its Islamic and Christian holy sites, and ways to coordinate
joint action to address them.

The meeting brought together the foreign ministers of Arab member
states of the Arab Ministerial Committee tasked with mobilizing
international action in response to illegal Israeli policies and
measures in occupied Jerusalem, the secretary-general of the Arab
League, and the foreign ministers of Indonesia, Pakistan, Türkiye and
Malaysia.

Participants issued a joint statement following the meeting. The
statement reads as follows:

At the invitation of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the Foreign
Ministers of the Arab States members of the Arab Ministerial
Committee tasked with mobilizing international action in response to
illegal Israeli policies and actions in the occupied city of
Jerusalem (the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the Republic of Tunisia,
the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, the Republic of Iraq,
the State of Qatar, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Federal Republic
of Somalia, the State of Palestine, the Arab Republic of Egypt and
the Kingdom of Morocco, together with the Secretary-General of the
League of Arab States), and the Foreign Ministers and representatives
of the Republic of Indonesia, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, the
Republic of Türkiye and Malaysia, met in Amman, Wednesday, 5 August
2026, to discuss the dangerous and unprecedented Israeli escalation
in the occupied city of Jerusalem and its Islamic and Christian holy
sites, and to launch joint action to confront all illegitimate
Israeli measures that are driving the region towards further
conflict.

The participants agreed to:

1. Condemn Israeli policies and measures aimed at altering the Arab
Islamic and Christian identity of occupied Jerusalem and its legal
and demographic status, and reject such measures as null and void,
without legal effect, and as a flagrant violation of international
law and Israel’s obligations as the Occupying Power.

2. Reaffirm that East Jerusalem is part of the occupied Palestinian
territory, and that Israel has no sovereignty over it. Reemphasize
that East Jerusalem is the capital of the State of Palestine, and
that the realization of a free, independent and sovereign Palestinian
State on the lines of 4 June 1967, with East Jerusalem as its
capital, living in security and peace alongside Israel, on the basis
of the two-State solution and in accordance with international law,
the relevant United Nations resolutions, and the Arab Peace
Initiative, is the only path to achieving a just, lasting and
comprehensive peace. And reaffirm the New York Declaration on the
Peaceful Settlement of the Question of Palestine and the
Implementation of the Two-State Solution.

3. Condemn all Israeli violations at the blessed Al-Aqsa
Mosque/Al-Haram Al-Sharif, all attempts to alter its historic and
legal status quo and impose temporal and spatial division, including
the escalating incursions by extremist settlers, Israeli ministers
and officials, facilitated and protected by the Israeli occupation
authorities; the accompanying provocative practices and inflammatory
statements; restrictions on access for worshippers to the Mosque and
assaults against them; obstruction of the work of the Jerusalem Awqaf
and Al-Aqsa Mosque Affairs Department; and the continued illegal
excavations beneath the Mosque and in its vicinity.

4. Affirm that the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque/Al-Haram Al-Sharif, with
its entire area of 144 dunums, is a place of worship exclusively for
Muslims, and that the Jerusalem Awqaf and Al-Aqsa Mosque Affairs
Department, affiliated with the Jordanian Ministry of Awqaf, Islamic
Affairs and Holy Sites, is the sole legal authority with exclusive
jurisdiction to administer all affairs of Al-Aqsa Mosque/Al-Haram
Al-Sharif and regulate entry thereto.

5. Condemn Israeli violations targeting Christian holy sites and
threatening the historic Christian presence in Jerusalem, including
restrictions on access to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the
observance of religious rites therein; interference in the affairs of
churches and restrictions imposed on their institutions and
properties; and attacks targeting clergy, worshippers and religious
symbols.

6. Support the historic Hashemite Custodianship over the Islamic and
Christian holy sites in Jerusalem, and its role in protecting these
holy sites, safeguarding their Arab Islamic and Christian identity,
and preserving the historic and legal status quo.

7. Support the resilience and empowerment of Jerusalemites in
confronting challenges and safeguarding their presence in their city,
by providing all forms of development assistance and strengthening
and protecting Palestinian institutions in Jerusalem.

8. Recognize the importance of the role of the Al-Quds Committee and
its executive arm, the Bayt Mal Al-Quds Al-Sharif Agency, and support
all efforts undertaken by the Committee.

9. Warn that Israeli attacks against Islamic holy sites in occupied
Jerusalem constitute a blatant provocation to the sentiments of
around two billion Muslims worldwide, and push towards a religious
conflict with repercussions that will extend beyond the region and
threaten regional and international peace and security.

10. Call upon the international community and the Security Council to
act immediately to halt all Israel’s illegitimate measures in
occupied Jerusalem and its holy sites, which are intensifying within
the context of a systematic Israeli policy to entrench the occupation
in the city of Jerusalem and throughout the occupied Palestinian
territory through settlement expansion, land annexation, the
suffocation of the Palestinian economy, the targeting of Palestinian
national institutions, the escalating settler terrorism, and the
targeting the UNRWA, while Israel’s violations of the Gaza ceasefire
agreement continue and the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza worsens,
thereby undermining the two-State solution and all prospects for
achieving a just and comprehensive peace and fueling tension and
conflict in the region.

11. Reject any unilateral decision that violates the legal status of
the occupied city of Jerusalem, including the establishment or
relocation of diplomatic missions to the city; affirm that such
decisions violate international law and relevant United Nations
resolutions; and call upon the states concerned to reverse them.

12. Launch joint action to mobilize an effective international
response to halt these escalatory and illegitimate Israeli practices,
measures and policies, and to compel Israel, the Occupying Power, to
respect the historic and legal status quo in Jerusalem and its holy
sites.

13. Launch a sustainable, institutional and operational mechanism,
including a media platform, to document and expose Israeli violations
against the holy sites and worshipers, and to expose their
catastrophic repercussions, which are pushing towards a religious
conflict and undermining regional and international peace and
security, in international organizations and before global public
opinion; provide the necessary support for this mechanism.

14. Call for the convening of a joint ministerial meeting of the
Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and the League of Arab States
during the high-level week of the United Nations General Assembly in
New York next September, to discuss the dangerous Israeli escalation
in Jerusalem and its holy sites and ways to confront it.

15. Thank the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan for organizing this
meeting.

//Petra// AJ