"Israel has cancelled the delegation," which was due to have arrived the same day, a foreign ministry official said.
"The visit was supposed to be professional, (but) they (Palestinians) were taking measures that showed they were politicizing the event and not letting the delegation focus on professional sides of it," the official claimed.
The Zionist regime in April agreed that the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization could assess the state of the Old City of Al-Quds, the first such monitoring mission since 2004, following pressure from Jordan and the Palestinians, who became members of the organization in 2011.
But ahead of the start of the delegation's work, the Zionist regime’s officials cancelled the visit, contrary to understandings reached by the sides.
In March, the Palestinian Authority confirmed a verbal agreement dating back to 1924 giving Jordan custodianship over Muslim and Christian sites in Al-Quds, whose eastern sector Israel seized in the 1967 Middle East war.