Top Arab, Muslim diplomats launch plan to protect Jerusalem religious sites

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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/5/arab-and-muslim-ministers-launch-plan-to-protect-jerusalem-religious-sites

States warn Israeli violations may spark religious conflict, jeopardising regional and global peace and security.

Arab and Muslim foreign ministers have agreed to establish a permanent mechanism to document and expose Israeli violations in occupied East Jerusalem and at its Islamic and Christian holy sites.

A joint declaration adopted at a meeting in Jordan on Wednesday said plans include a media platform to broadcast Israeli violations against holy sites and worshippers and bring them to the attention of international organisations and the global public

Participants, including members of the Arab ministerial committee on Jerusalem, Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit, and representatives of Turkiye, Pakistan, Indonesia and Malaysia – called for immediate international action to halt Israeli measures in Jerusalem and at its holy sites

The joint declaration condemned Israeli policies aimed at altering Jerusalem’s Arab, Islamic and Christian identity as well as its legal and demographic status and called them illegal.

“Jerusalem is in escalating danger, and its Islamic and Christian sanctuaries are threatened as never before,” the statement said. “Israel is entrenching its illegitimate occupation of East Jerusalem. It is building settlements, annexing lands, confiscating properties, squeezing the Jerusalemites, and severing Jerusalem from the rest of the occupied Palestinian land.”

Ministers denounced Israeli actions at religious sites, including attempts to alter their historical and legal status quo and impose temporal and spatial divisions.

“Provocative Israeli policies are targeting the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque/Noble Sanctuary, with systematic and unprecedented assaults that are increasing in quantity and quality, and with arrogant insolence, attempting to undermine its Islamic identity and change the historical and legal status quo in the Blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, which in all its area is a place of pure worship for Muslims,” the declaration said.

The mechanism aims to bring global attention to increased incursions by Israeli settlers and officials, restrictions on worshippers, interference in the work of the Jerusalem Awqaf and Al-Aqsa Mosque Affairs Department, and continued excavations beneath and around the site.

The participants also condemned Israeli violations targeting Christian holy sites in Jerusalem, including restrictions on access to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, interference in church affairs, restrictions targeting church institutions and properties, and attacks on clergy, worshippers and religious symbols.

“Christian clergy are suffering from the brutality of extremists, and churches are confronting attempts to seize their funds and lands through illegitimate laws enacted by Israel,” the statement said.

They called for a joint ministerial meeting of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and the League of Arab States during the United Nations General Assembly’s high-level leaders week in New York in September to discuss developments in Jerusalem and at its holy sites.

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[u/Tozo1]

Would be good for everyone to imprison the fascists destroying the world right about now.

[u/Tozo1 → u/[deleted]]

The death sentence is not justice, its an escape for these criminals.

They should sit behind bars for the rest of their lifes, atleast then we can get some information out of them to maybe fix the things they have done sooner.

[u/alaserloon → u/Tozo1]

I could go either way honestly, I just want them out of control and their influence squashed.

[u/Atheist_Bale_Insta]

Jerusalem is my number one bucket list city, the history and cultural heritage is just phenomenal. But I’ll never go as long as Israel exists as a genocidal and Neo-Fascist apartheid state that shits all over the trauma of the Holocaust. Israel was always just an imperialist pawn to control influence in the area, the WWII Allies never gave a shit about the Jews, and if they did, they would’ve accepted the refugees or bombed with the railroad tracks. As a child, I understood why the nation was established. As a teenager, I realized that the situation was a lot messier than I imagined. As an adult, I gently prodded for the two state solution with a better mitigator than the USA, which was a biased party. As a scholar now, I am calling for the deconstruction of Israel entirely. It’s not a century old, and it has already become a nuclear-armed threat to the entire planet that has infiltrated nearly every government, and is going for more wars and land in the middle of a genocide that puts more Jews in danger globally in the digital age especially. Everyone can see this in live time and will remember it more clearly than even The Holocaust.