PA, Jordan want Muslim control over Jewish visits to Temple Mount
- 9 years ago
Jordan and the Palestinian Authority are expected to demand from the US that control over Jewish visits to the Temple Mount in Jerusalem be restored to the Muslim authority that administers the site, Palestinian sources say.
Amman and the PA are seeking to return the running of the Temple Mount - the holiest site in Judaism and third-holiest in Islam - to how it was before the start of the intifada in September 2000, and before the infamous visit of then-opposition Likud leader Ariel Sharon, when the Waqf was responsible for Jewish visitors' access to the site.
Palestinian sources also told The Times of Israel that Abbas will tell Kerry during their meeting in Amman on Saturday that he is interested in renewing peace talks with Israel and abiding by previous agreements, but that Jerusalem must first freeze all settlement activity and release the 26 Palestinian prisoners it had agreed to free last year as part of a US-brokered concession to Abbas.
Amman and the PA are seeking to return the running of the Temple Mount - the holiest site in Judaism and third-holiest in Islam - to how it was before the start of the intifada in September 2000, and before the infamous visit of then-opposition Likud leader Ariel Sharon, when the Waqf was responsible for Jewish visitors' access to the site.
Palestinian sources also told The Times of Israel that Abbas will tell Kerry during their meeting in Amman on Saturday that he is interested in renewing peace talks with Israel and abiding by previous agreements, but that Jerusalem must first freeze all settlement activity and release the 26 Palestinian prisoners it had agreed to free last year as part of a US-brokered concession to Abbas.