Arab and Muslim foreign ministers met in Jordan on Wednesday to coordinate a unified position on East Jerusalem amid growing concern over Israeli actions in the occupied city and its holy sites.

The meeting in Amman brought together members of the Arab ministerial committee on East Jerusalem, Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit, and the foreign ministers of Türkiye, Pakistan, Indonesia and Malaysia, according to Jordan's state news agency Petra.

The ministers discussed recent developments in the occupied East Jerusalem and efforts to formulate a common diplomatic response to what they described as escalating Israeli policies affecting the city's identity, religious heritage and historical status quo.

Fidan holds bilateral talks

On the sidelines of the meeting, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan held separate talks with Jordanian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi and Algerian Foreign Minister Ahmed Attaf, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said.

Jordan hosted the gathering in its capacity as custodian of East Jerusalem's Islamic and Christian holy sites.

The Arab ministerial committee comprises Jordan, Tunisia, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Iraq, Qatar, Egypt and Morocco, alongside the Arab League secretary-general.

The meeting comes amid continued Israeli measures that Arab and Muslim countries say threaten the character and historical status of occupied East Jerusalem and its sacred sites.