Jordan’s envoy to the Palestinian territories dismissed claims that Jordan and Israel had reached an agreement under which the latter suspended a plan to demolish a ramp in occupied Arab East Jerusalem’s Haram Al Sharif compound.
According to reports, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu postponed the planned demolition of the Bab Al Magharbeh Bridge, an access ramp to the Al Aqsa Mosque, fearing a wave of protest across the Arab and Islamic worlds.
However, some reports in the Israeli media had said that Israel made decision in agreement with Jordan.
In a statement carried by the Jordanian official media, head of the Jordan Representation Office at the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) Awad Sarhan said the reports are baseless.
Sarhan said that Jordan co-ordinates with the PNA on all issues related to Jerusalem and Al Aqsa Mosque, because both Jordan and the PNA aim to preserve Al Haram Al Sharif and its Islamic identity.
Sarhan alo reiterated Jordan’s rejection of any attempt to change the identity of the Islamic sites in Jerusalem.
Jordan has expressed “relief” over the Israeli decision to halt a unilateral plan to rebuild a wooden bridge at the Bab Al Magharbeh.
Netanyahu took the decision in order not to spark anti-Israel protests in Egypt on the eve of the first parliamentary elections since the February downfall of Hosni Mubarak, Israeli public radio said last week.
A spokesman for Jerusalem’s Israeli-run municipality refused to comment on the proposed work which had been due to begin late on Saturday.
On Oct.23, the city council said that it had ordered that the access ramp be demolished.
The wooden structure has been at the centre of a complex row between the Israeli occupation authorities and the groups that oversee the Muslim and Jewish parts of the plaza that houses the Western Wall and the Al Aqsa mosque.
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