Jordanian Prime Minister Marouf Bakhit said on Wednesday that the Jordanian government "has began political movement to contact international and regional concerned parties to warn against the danger of Israeli digging in al-Aqsa compound with unacceptable pretext".

According to Jordan's news agency Petra, Bakhit stressed that the Israeli practices "constitute a flagrant violation of the relevant resolutions of the UN Security Council".

Jordanian government will not spare any effort to save al-Aqsa Mosque from Israeli aggressions, he added.

Israel on Tuesday began a controversial dig near an entrance to a compound in Jerusalem that houses the al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam's third holiest shrine.

Jordan's King Abdullah II on Tuesday condemned the Israeli excavations against the Islamic holy shrines in Jerusalem and said that what Israel is doing is a "blatant violation that is not acceptable under any pretext".

Israel was violating its 1994 peace treaty with Jordan, which gave Jordan legal custodianship over the Islamic shrines in Jerusalem, said Abdullah.

The Jordanian ambassador in Tel Aviv, Ali al-Ayed, also submitted an official objection and condemnation to the Israeli foreign ministry over the Israeli actions.

However, Israel did not respond to the official protest.

On Wednesday, Jordan's 14 opposition parties released a statement and urged the Jordanian government to cut diplomatic ties with Israel to protest the Israeli excavation work.

"Condemnation is insufficient, because this enemy does not understand anything except the logic of force and deterrence", the opposition parties said in the statement.

Source: Xinhua