After the performance of Israelis religious rituals .. Jordanian anger and the closure of the shrine of the Prophet Harun

Mahmoud Al-Sharaan - Amman

The Jordanian Ministry of Awqaf closed down the tomb of the Prophet Harun after anger spread over the street following the publication of videos of Israeli tourists performing ritual rites in the Petra area and inside the tomb of the Prophet Harun in the Petra region, and demanded politicians and activists to hold accountable those who failed to allow the Israelis to enter the area.

In a statement, the ministry denounced what happened inside the shrine of the Prophet Harun, stressing its strong rejection of such behavior, and opened an investigation into what happened and the accountability of those who were allowed to enter.

The decision was issued without clarifying the duration of the closure and the way tourists enter, especially after the departure of Minister Abdel Nasser Abu al-Basal to perform the Hajj, as the ministry was absent from the scene, rejecting the statement.

For his part, Said that one of the videos was filmed recently, and that the authority closed the site after the information reached about the intention of Jews up to about three hundred tourists to enter the shrine of the Prophet Harun.

Al-Fergat said that the site was closed to prevent tourists from reaching it, but that about five of them infiltrated after being allowed to enter, despite previous instructions to guards not to introduce foreigners to the site, with emphasis on preventing the manifestations of non-Muslim religion as a mosque.

He added that the Authority, in cooperation with the Awqaf, "will not allow any non-Islamic religious appearance in place" and will be coordinated in advance when opening the place in a timely manner. The tomb of the Prophet Harun was built during the Mamluk period and has no relation to the Jews either historically or ethnically, according to the authority of the Petra region.

Electronic anger

The Jordanians did not forgive the mistake committed in spite of the previous justifications. They demanded that those responsible for the entry of Jewish tourists be held accountable to Maqam.

On the other hand, activists mocked through the communication platforms on the statements of the authority of the Petra region, and loaded by the guard who allowed tourists to enter responsibility for what happened.

"The authority of the Petra region bears the guard of the tomb of the prophet Harun, responsible for what happened by the Jewish herdsmen who practiced their Talmudic rite there, because it opened the door of the sanctuary despite a decision to prevent it." You're the reason!".

The journalist Ahmad Hassan al-Zu'bi also scoffed at the case after the passage of the Cyber ​​Security Law, "Cybersecurity, what was known in (Israelis) as the name of the Prophet Harun?"

"The pictures of the religious rituals of the Jews in Petra scattered today and the uproar since the days that accompanied the film, which refers to the scenario of the rights of Jews in Jordan and Palestine will be photographed or photographed already by Petra, all these and others in the coming days, political messages passed to the regime Political and community. "

There is no presence in Petra

A member of the parliamentary reform bloc MP Saud Abu Mahfouz said that what happened was arranged and coordinated, and the Ministry of Awqaf is absent - as well as the official and security authorities - about the dangers facing Petra and its components, and the imminent Jewish danger to its surroundings.

Abu Mahfouz confirmed to Al-Jazeera Net that it has not been proven historically that there is a shrine for the Prophet Aaron. Pharon died in the Sinai and was buried in it. However, the mosque in the upper part of Petra was to serve a Mamluk military site.

"The mosque was built by the conqueror Muhammad al-Nasir ibn Qalawun al-Circassi in 1326, on the ruins of a chapel built by al-Dhahir Baybars al-Kazakhi in 1264, and the mosque and its moorings and masts are available to Jewish tourists of every race."

The Movie

The incident of the arrival of Jewish tourists to the tomb of the Prophet Harun, days after the uproar over the movie "Jaber", which was supposed to be filmed in Petra, but was canceled.

The film tells the story of a child who finds a rock written in Hebrew in the Wadi Musa area of ​​southern Jordan before he tries to sell it to an English archaeologist for the purpose of smuggling it abroad.

A number of Jordanian actors withdrew from the film because of what they called "hints about the right of Jews in Petra" and formed a government committee to study the content and text of the film commissioned by Prime Minister Omar al-Razaz.

Union denunciation

The Committee for the Protection of the Nation and the resistance to the normalization of trade union denounced the religious rituals by Jewish tourists in the city of Petra in the absence of the security services or official authorities that did not prevent such actions harmful to the security and history and sovereignty of Jordan.

The committee said it rejects "all what is being waged against the Kingdom of conspiracies and pressures to bow to the so-called deal of the century," amid the absence of the role of government agencies and official "to preserve Jordan from the cases of Zionist normalization."