Jordan’s Foreign Ministry has condemned Israeli police’s assault on Christians and the restrictions on their access to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem on the occasion of Holy Saturday, Al Jazeera reports.

“The ministry’s official spokesperson, Ambassador Dr Sufian Qudah, affirmed the kingdom’s absolute condemnation and rejection of the illegal Israeli restrictive measures against Christians, including preventing them from freely accessing the Church of the Holy Sepulchre to perform their religious rituals,” a statement from the ministry said.

“These measures coincide with repeated incursions into the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque/Al-Haram Al-Sharif, in an attempt to impose new realities in the city of Jerusalem, including temporal and spatial division.”