Jordan MPs Want Treaty with ’Israel’ Scrapped

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Jordanian MPs have called for a 1994 treaty with the Zionist entity to be scrapped after the Zionist entity' Knesset debated so-called "Israeli" sovereignty over al-Aqsa mosque, a daily reported Wednesday.
The government-owned al-Rai newspaper said 47 out of 150 members of the lower house signed a motion late Tuesday that the treaty be annulled.

"The motion came in response to "Israel's" actions in al-Quds and to the Knesset debate of a law that seeks to impose "Israel's" sovereignty over al-Aqsa," al-Rai quoted MPs as saying in the motion.

Under the treaty, Jordan is the custodian of Muslim holy sites in al-Quds.
""Israel's" actions clearly violate the "peace" treaty... it is aggression against Jordanian custodianship," the motion said.

Al-Rai said the lower house will discuss "the repercussions of the debate later Wednesday".

On Tuesday evening, the Knesset held the first part of a debate called by right-wingers demanding that "Israel" end its practice of forbidding "Israeli" prayers at the compound.

The Jordanian government has so far not commented.

But Jordan's opposition Islamic Action Front [IAF] urged the government on Tuesday to freeze the deal.
"The custodianship is a Jordanian national interest and a sacred religious duty," said the IAF, the main opposition party.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team