Jordan’s Minister of Endowment and Islamic Sanctuaries and Affairs, Dr. Abdul Salam Al-Abbadi, has condemned reports by Israeli newspapers which assert that a historic deal between Israel’s Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Vatican Representative in the Holy Land was ratified on the 29th of the last month.

The deal includes tax exemptions granted by the Israeli authorities to Vatican institutions operating in occupied Jerusalem. Within the deal, Israel will also grant the papacy a formal seat in the final supper room, “one of the upstairs rooms of the Islamic Waqf’s mosque and a shrine to the Prophet David in Jerusalem.”

In a press release issued by the ministry today, Al-Abbadi said that, “the general manager of Jerusalem endowments had communicated with the representative of the Vatican in the city to clarify what had been published in Israeli newspapers. He categorically denied the allegation and said that any matter relating to this room would be discussed with Jordan. He stressed that the Mosque of the Prophet David, his place on all facilities and floors, corners and Mehrabs are Islamic Waqf. With regard to being an important Islamic Waqf, the available historic, religious and legal documents prove this Islamic right as well as the fact that the historic, religious and legal rights in the mosque belong only to Islamic Waqf.”

He added that the Islamic Waqf denounces the forced changes (de facto) that existed prior to 1967, and that it will not accept the continued prevention of Muslims from praying at the mosque of the Prophet David as well as the continued prevention of al-Dajani from burying their dead in their historical graveyard. He pointed out that the Israeli authorities have no right to give away what it does not own.

He pointed out that al-Dajani are the servants of the place and mosque; according to Bowl decrees granted to them over 560 years ago.

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