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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 571

Hamas-Jordan relations

Ahlam al-Tamimi, during an interview in her home in Amman, Jordan, on March 21, 2017. (AP Photo/ Omar Akour)
February 3, 2025, 2:05 am
Jordan reportedly warns it could extradite Sbarro bombing mastermind to US for trial
In reversal, Amman said to give Hamas one day to find Ahlam Tamimi another home or it will send her stateside, where she is wanted over 2001 Jerusalem attack that killed 16, including 2 Americans
By ToI Staff
File: Senior Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal (L) and senior Hamas member Mousa Abu Marzouk attending a meeting between Iran's Foreign Minister and Hamas' political bureau chief in Doha, October 31, 2023. (Iranian Foreign Ministry/AFP)
April 30, 2024, 9:44 pm
Jordan flatly rejects senior Hamas official’s idea of moving leadership to kingdom
After Abu Marzouk claims good relations with Amman, veteran Jordanian diplomat responds that country ‘has closed the book on Palestinian cells’
By Michael Horovitz
Illustrative: Jordanians chant slogans during a demonstration near the Embassy of Israel in Amman on March 28, 2024, in support of Palestinians amid the war between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. (Khalil MAZRAAWI / AFP)
April 4, 2024, 5:50 pm
Shaken by daily mass protests on Gaza, Jordan accuses ‘infiltrators’ of stoking unrest
The Hashemite kingdom has been one of Israel’s most vocal critics, but the Jordanian public is dissatisfied with the government’s rhetoric and many demand an end to the peace treaty
By Gianluca Pacchiani
File: Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh flashes the victory sign before he speaks to journalists after his meeting with Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, in Beirut, Lebanon, on June 28, 2021. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
August 27, 2021, 7:06 pm
Hamas leaders in Jordan for first time in years to attend funeral
Ammas gives special approval to Ismail Haniyeh and Khaled Mashaal to visit after death of former official; group is largely banned from the kingdom
By ToI Staff
Jordan's King Abdullah II, right, meets with former Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, in Amman, Jordan, January 28, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Raad Adayleh)
October 19, 2017, 11:01 am
Despite unity deal, Jordan won’t let Hamas reopen Amman office — report
‘Hamas is a Palestinian party and movement and its place and work are in Palestine,’ official source tells leading Jordanian daily
By Dov Lieber
In this Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008 file photograph, Imam Mohammad Qatanani, center left, walks out of the Peter W. Rodino Jr. Federal Building in Newark, New Jersey, with supporters after an immigration judge ruled that Qatanani can remain in the United States. (AP Photo/Mike Derer, file)
December 6, 2016, 3:44 am
US Muslim cleric fights deportation over Hamas conviction
Federal officials say Mohammad Qatanani didn’t disclose being convicted in Israel for being a member of Hamas
By AP
Gold found by the Shin Bet allegedly used to fund the Hamas cell (Shin Bet Communications)
July 1, 2015, 1:58 pm
Large, gold-funded Hamas cell uncovered in West Bank, Shin Bet says
Israel’s security agency breaks a 40-strong cell in the Nablus region, foiling a terror attack in the making
By Mitch Ginsburg
Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon speaking at the Herzliya Conference on June 9, 2015 ( Erez Harodi/ Osim Tsilum/ Courtesy)
June 9, 2015, 1:08 pm
Defense minister: Palestinian state unlikely ‘in my lifetime’
Ya’alon warns against the dangers of change in the West Bank, where a Hamas takeover would threaten neighboring Jordan
By Mitch Ginsburg
A Jordanian watchtower on the border between Jordan and Israel near the Dead Sea, July 20, 2012 (photo credit: Mendy Hechtman/Flash90)
December 4, 2014, 1:02 am
Jordan jails man who plotted suicide attack in Israel
Conviction follows Amman’s arrest of 20 others who planned to smuggle arms to West Bank for terror attacks
By Lazar Berman
Palestinian school students take part in a military march organized by Hamas national security in the town of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, February 27, 2014 (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flas90)
December 2, 2014, 11:14 am
Brotherhood members in Jordan accused of planning attacks on Israelis
20 questioned over plan to smuggle arms into West Bank, Al-Jazeera reports; crackdown coincides with Shin Bet exposure of Hamas cell
By Elhanan Miller
Illustrative photo of protesters affiliated with Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood chanting anti-Israel and anti-America slogans during a demonstration in downtown Amman, Jordan, February 2014. (photo credit: AP/Mohammad Hannon)
September 16, 2014, 7:39 pm
Jordan arrests Brotherhood leader for incitement
Mohamed Said Bakr detained after slamming government as ‘subject’ to US; had called for war with Israel
By AFP
Jordan's King Abdullah II, right, meets with former Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, in Amman, Jordan, January 28, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Raad Adayleh)
December 17, 2013, 5:03 pm
Jordan shuts its gates on Hamas
Amman shuns group’s political head as it improves relations with post-Muslim Brotherhood Egypt
By Elhanan Miller
A Palestinian worker inside a smuggling tunnel, beneath the Egyptian-Gaza border in the southern Gaza Strip, in February 2013 (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
From the WebJune 5, 2013, 11:56 am
Jordan Islamist delegation enters Gaza via tunnels
Members of Islamist Freedom and Justice party use underground passages to keep visit secret from their own government, Ma’an news agency reports
Jordan's King Abdullah II, right, meets with former Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal, in Amman, Jordan, January 28, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Raad Adayleh)
January 31, 2013, 3:08 am
Hamas leader reportedly backs two-state solution
Islamist group denies Saudi report that Mashaal asked Jordan’s King Abdullah to convey the message to Obama
By Ron Friedman
Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal attends his father's funeral at a Mosque in Amman, Jordan, August 29, 2009. (AP/Nader Daoud)
July 9, 2012, 6:43 pm
13 years after king booted it out, Hamas leader says his group has reconciled with Jordan
During second visit to kingdom in under a year, Khaled Mashaal agrees to stay out of internal Jordanian affairs
By Elhanan Miller
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