Foreign ministers from Arab and Muslim countries agreed to establish a permanent mechanism to document and present Israeli actions in occupied East Jerusalem and at Islamic and Christian holy sites to the world. The decision was announced in a joint statement issued after a meeting in Jordan on Wednesday. The mechanism will include a media-based platform to publicize Israeli actions and incidents involving worshippers to international organizations and global public opinion.

Participants included members of the Arab Ministerial Committee on Jerusalem, Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit, and representatives of Turkey, Pakistan, Indonesia and Malaysia. They called for immediate international intervention to stop Israeli measures in Jerusalem and at its holy sites. The statement condemned policies it said aimed to alter the city’s Arab, Islamic and Christian identity, as well as its legal and demographic character, describing such measures as illegal.

The statement said the platform would raise internationally the growing entry of Israeli settlers and officials into the Al-Aqsa compound, restrictions on worshippers, interference in Jerusalem Waqf work and excavation activities. It also condemned alleged actions against Christian holy sites. Ministers called for a joint OIC-Arab League meeting in New York during the UN General Assembly’s high-level session next September.