Jordan’s Foreign Ministry on Monday summoned the Zionist Ambassador in Amman Daniel Nevo to protest "Israeli violations" against the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the city of Al-Quds (occupied East Jerusalem).

Jordan's Foreign Ministry on Monday summoned the Zionist Ambassador in Amman Daniel Nevo to protest "Israeli violations" against the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the city of Al-Quds (occupied East Jerusalem).

"Jordan has notified the Israeli envoy regarding its rejection of Israeli violations against the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the detention of [Muslim] worshippers, restrictions on entry into the mosque compound, and the frequent forcible entry into the holy site by [Jewish] settlers," the ministry said in a statement.

The ministry went on to say it had asked the Zionist government to "immediately" halt all violations against the mosque, holding the self-proclaimed Jewish state responsible for the iconic mosque's safety.

Nevo, for his part, said he would personally deliver the message to the Zionist government, according to the ministry's statement.

In 1994, Jordan and the enemy entity signed a peace treaty that normalized relations between the two countries and allowed them to exchange ambassadors.

Ties between the two neighbors recently soured, however, after a Zionist lawmaker proposed legislation that would revoke Jordanian oversight of Palestinian holy sites in violation of the treaty's terms.

Jordanians were further angered by last month's killing of a Jordanian judge by Zionist border guards at a crossing point between the Hashemite kingdom and the Zionist entity-occupied West Bank.

In recent months, groups of extremist Jewish settlers, often accompanied by Zionist security forces, have repeatedly forced their way into the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex. The frequent violations anger Palestinian Muslims and occasionally lead to violent confrontations.