Jordan stairs adult support of easterly Jerusalem Palestinians
AMMAN (TNS) – The Jordanian supervision has taken stairs to assist Arabs vital in Jerusalem and to accelerate a polite invulnerability guards during Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Wasfi Kilani, executive of a Hashemite Fund for Al-Aqsa Mosque, told Arab News that a actions come as partial of a total bid to support Palestinian Jerusalemites.
“With instructions from His Majesty, we have endeavored to yield executive support to Jerusalemites by shortening pass fees by a third, and by augmenting a series of guards and administrators of a Jordanian waqf in Al-Aqsa Mosque to 1,000,” Kilani said.
Fawaz Shahwan, conduct of Jordan’s Passport Department, told Arab News that a Cabinet has supposed recommendations to revoke pass fees and concede Jerusalem’s Palestinians, a infancy of whom have Jordanian passports and documents, to replenish their passports but a weight of transport to Amman.
“Now a Palestinian in Jerusalem can go a nearest Jordanian waqf bureau to request and a authorized pass will be delivered to his or her easterly Jerusalem home,” he said.
Shahwan reliable that a pass fees have been reduced from 200 Jordanian dinars ($280) to JD50, a same price paid by Jordanians.
In another step to move Jordanians and Palestinians closer, a Jordanian army’s arch of staff, Lt. Gen. Mohammed Freihat, launched a module appropriation and coordinating a transport of about 24 Jordanian troops officers and their families to Christian holy places in Bethlehem, Nazareth and Jerusalem.
Gen. Emad Haddad, who led a commission of Christian army officers, told Arab News that a three-day revisit was done in together with a appearance of Muslim officers in a annual Hajj event to a Saudi holy places.
“Our revisit was singular and emotional. People were changed by this certain beginning that showed equivalence in a Jordanian armed army and contributed to Palestinian-Jordanian loving relations,” he said.
Haddad pronounced that a acquire by a delegation’s counterparts in Bethlehem was generally moving. “We perceived an glorious acquire as we visited a Church of a Nativity and met with associate Palestinians.”
Naser Tahboub, highbrow during Jordan University’s Prince Hussein School of International Studies, told Arab News that a Jordanian government’s efforts will assistance soothe a weight on Arabs in Jerusalem. “These actions follow progressing actions by a late King Hussein and a continual efforts of King Abdullah to support Jerusalemites and boost their steadfastness.”
Jerusalemite Arabs interviewed by Arab News welcomed a moves, observant they would minister to a determination of their people in a holy city.
Khaleel Assali, editor of a Jerusalem-based website Akhbar El-Balad, told Arab News that a actions of a Jordanian supervision will strengthen a spirit of Palestinians.
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