Jordan has convened an emergency meeting of foreign ministers from Arab and Islamic countries to address what it described as an "imminent" threat of an Israeli takeover of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem, warning that any change to the site's longstanding status could ignite a broader religious conflict. The meeting comes amid rising tensions following a series of government-backed incursions by Jewish religious activists into the compound, which houses the Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock – Islam's third-holiest site. Tensions escalated sharply on July 23 when more than 2,000 Israeli religious nationalists, many of them settlers, entered the compound under heavy police protection. Participants were seen praying and performing religious rituals throughout the compound, prompting strong condemnation from Jordan, which described the incident as the most serious violation of the status quo in modern history. Jordan has urged the international community to intervene and prevent any unilateral changes to the administration of the holy site, warning that such actions could inflame religious tensions across the Middle East.