{"id":11867,"date":"2026-06-20T15:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=11867"},"modified":"2026-06-20T15:09:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T12:09:00","slug":"jordan-israels-seizure-of-land-belonging-to-the-greek-orthodox-patriarchate-is-a-flagrant-violation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/?p=11867","title":{"rendered":"Jordan: Israel\u2019s seizure of land belonging to the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate is a \u201cflagrant violation\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>     Jordan has expressed its strong opposition to the confiscation of land belonging to the <strong>Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem<\/strong> in the <strong>Silwan<\/strong> neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem. <\/p>\n<p>     Amman characterized Israel\u2019s move Israel as a <strong>violation of international <\/strong> <strong> humanitarian law<\/strong>, while asserting that it is an action intended to alter the historical and legal status of the city. <\/p>\n<h3>     \u201cWe reject any illegal and provocative action\u201d <\/h3>\n<p>     In a statement, the spokesperson for the Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador <strong>Fuad al-Majali<\/strong>, reiterated his country\u2019s firm stance against unilateral moves in Jerusalem. <\/p>\n<p>     \u201cMy country categorically rejects any unilateral, illegal, and provocative action aimed at altering the existing historical and legal status of Jerusalem and its holy sites,\u201d he stated emphatically. <\/p>\n<p>     He emphasized that Israel \u201chas no sovereignty over occupied Jerusalem or over the city\u2019s Islamic and Christian holy sites,\u201d while reiterating Jordan\u2019s position in favor of the creation of an independent Palestinian state as a prerequisite for a just and comprehensive peace settlement in the region. <\/p>\n<h3>     What happened on the Patriarchate\u2019s property <\/h3>\n<p>     According to available information, the <strong>Israeli authorities<\/strong> proceeded on Monday to seize the disputed land in Silwan. <\/p>\n<p>     During the operation, the representative of the <strong>Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem<\/strong> was removed from the site, and equipment found there was confiscated. At the same time, it is reported that trees were uprooted and a fence was erected around the area, a move that sparked fresh controversy regarding the status of church properties in East Jerusalem. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n    Jordan has expressed its strong opposition to the confiscation of land belonging to the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem in the Silwan neighborhood of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}