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Sunday 25 Oct 2015 - 13:43 Makkah mean time-12-1-1437
King Abdullah, right, US Sec of State kerry (AP image)
Amman (IINA) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Saturday that Israel and Jordan have agreed on steps aimed at reducing tensions at Jerusalem's holy site that have fanned Israeli-Palestinian violence, USA TODAY reported.
“All the violence and the incitement to violence must stop. Leaders must lead,” Kerry told reporters in the Jordanian capital after meeting with King Abdullah II and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas.
The top U.S. diplomat said the steps include round-the-clock video monitoring and Israel’s reaffirming of Jordan’s special and historic role as the custodian of the Jerusalem holy sites.
The King suggested that monitoring, according to Kerry, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accepted it.
Israel has pledged to maintain the rules of worship at the site, and Israeli and Jordanian authorities will meet about bolstering security, Kerry said.
Noting the video monitoring, Kerry said it would provide “comprehensive visibility and transparency, and that could really be a game-changer in discouraging anybody from disturbing the sanctity of this holy site".
In the meetings with King Abdullah, President Abbas and Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh, and earlier with Israeli Prime Netanyahu, Kerry explored ways to address the violence that began in mid-September initially at the shrine, but has spread to the rest of Jerusalem, as well as the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
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