On the evening of 24 July, a phone call was held between Benjamin Netanyahu and Abdullah II of Jordan in which the king asked that the metal detectors be removed from the Temple Mount. Later that evening Jordan permitted the embassy staff including the injured security officer to return to Israel. Haaretz reported that the staff was allowed to leave after he had given an account of the incident to the Jordanian authorities in the presence of embassy staff. Later that night, Israeli authorities removed metal detectors from the entrance to the Temple Mount.