RAMALLAH, 23 March 2022, (TON): Israeli media reported on March 21 that King Abdullah II of Jordan will visit Ramallah next week and meet the Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to prevent a possible security escalation in the West Bank and Jerusalem during Ramadan.

It comes amid Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian concerns over possible violence in the Palestinian Territories flaring up in the coming weeks.

The PA said “if Israel wants to prevent friction, it must prevent settlers’ incursions into Al-Aqsa Mosque throughout Ramadan, which coincides with the Jewish Passover holiday.”

He added that the Palestinian leadership will tell Abdullah, “let the Jews pray in the places designated for them, and leave Al-Aqsa Mosque during Ramadan to perform the Muslim prayer.”

A Palestinian source told media “Israel is taking advantage of the world’s preoccupation with the Russian-Ukrainian war to escalate its measures against the Palestinians by doubling its settlement activity, imposing new facts on the ground, and its intention to carry out settler incursions into the Temple Mount during the month of Ramadan.”