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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 649

Jordanian-Palestinian relations

US President Donald Trump (right) speaks with Jordan's King Abdullah II in the Oval Office at the White House, in Washington, February 11, 2025. (Photo/Alex Brandon)
February 12, 2025, 5:20 am
Abdullah says Jordan will take in 2,000 sick Gazan kids as Trump pushes relocation plan
US president calls king’s pledge ‘music to his ears’; wants ‘parcel of land’ in Jordan and Egypt for Gazans; doesn’t believe Hamas will release all hostages by his Saturday deadline
By Jacob Magid
People walk along a street after Israeli bulldozers dug up the asphalt in the the Nur Shams refugee camp near Tulkarem in the West Bank following a large-scale military operation on August 30, 2024. (Jaafar ASHTIYEH / AFP)
August 30, 2024, 6:21 pm
Report: Jordan fears IDF West Bank ops, settler violence will drive Palestinians across border
Locals describe scenes of destruction in Tulkarem refugee camp; Hamas accuses PA of arresting operatives in Nablus; UK ‘deeply concerned’ by wide-scale operation
By ToI Staff, Emanuel Fabian and AFP
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas meets with Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and Belgium's Prime Minister Alexander De Croo in the West Bank city Ramallah, on Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023. (Alaa Badarneh/Pool via AP)
November 30, 2023, 8:25 pm
PA’s Abbas a ‘liability’ in planning for post-war Gaza, Arab officials say
PA president can’t be relied on to take over after Hamas, Arab diplomats tell ToI, highlighting Ramallah’s ineffective governance as a factor in its current weakened state
By Jacob Magid
Senior diplomats from Israel, the US, and regional Arab allies pose for pictures at their Negev Summit follow-up meeting in Bahrain, June 27, 2022 (Foreign Ministry)
October 20, 2022, 12:50 pm
As Israeli-Arab Negev Forum prepares to reconvene, members try to bring in Jordan
Senior Israeli official optimistic Amman will be at table when UAE hosts working groups next month and Morocco hosts ministers in January, but Knesset elections present a curveball
By Jacob Magid
Jordan's King Abdullah II attends the Jeddah Security and Development Summit (GCC+3) at a hotel in Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coastal city of Jeddah on July 16, 2022. (Mandel Ngan/AFP)
July 24, 2022, 5:30 pm
Jordan’s king protests attacks by Iran-backed militias on border, hosts PA’s Abbas
Abdullah says he seeks good relations with Tehran but requires mutual respect of sovereignty; monarch, Palestinian leader discuss Biden’s recent visit to region, ‘Israeli crimes’
By ToI Staff and AFP
In this July 19, 2021 file photo, US President Joe Biden, right, meets with Jordan's King Abdullah II, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
May 10, 2022, 12:59 am
Jordanian king to meet Biden at White House amid Temple Mount tensions
Leaders reportedly to focus on reducing pressure at flashpoint Jerusalem holy site that threatens to spark a wider conflict and damage ties between Israel and Jordan
By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas meets with Jordan's King Abdullah II in Amman on April 27, 2022. (WAFA)
April 28, 2022, 7:45 am
PA’s Abbas, Jordan’s Abdullah meet in Amman, discuss ‘ways to defend Jerusalem’
After month-long tensions in Jerusalem over holy sites, Jordanian monarch says restrictions on Christian worship, alleged changes to status quo in Jerusalem ‘unacceptable’
By Aaron Boxerman
Public Security Minister Omer Barlev visits a business that was a victim of protection racket, in the upper Galilee, between Rosh Pina and Kiryat Shmona, August 11, 2021. (Basel Awidat/Flash90)
March 29, 2022, 12:19 pm
Police minister said to have visited Jordan to discuss preventing Ramadan flare-up
Omer Barlev reportedly met Jordan’s FM, and the two talked of steps in Jerusalem during Muslim holy month to avert violent escalation
By ToI Staff
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (R) welcomes King Abdullah II of Jordan (L) accompanied by Crown Prince Hussein (C), ahead of a meeting in Ramallah in the West Bank, on March 28, 2022. (ABBAS MOMANI / AFP)
March 28, 2022, 11:29 pm
‘We are one,’ Abbas tells Jordanian king during rare West Bank visit
Abdullah arrives on eve of potentially incendiary Ramadan holiday, after kingdom declined invitation to Negev summit of Arab diplomats on same date
By Aaron Boxerman
Jordanian King Abdullah II, right, as Jordan's Crown Prince Hussein, second right, looks on, speaks to Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Tuesday, July 20, 2021 at the State Department in Washington. (Nicholas Kamm /Pool via AP)
September 5, 2021, 2:49 pm
Daily Briefing Sept. 5 – Do recent regional talks portend anything peaceful?
Aaron Boxerman and Haviv Rettig-Gur talk about the trilateral summit between the Palestinians, Egyptians and Jordanians, followed by President Herzog’s unexpected trip to Jordan
By ToI Staff
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas meets with Jordanian monarch King Abdullah II on Wednesday, June 30, 2021 (WAFA)
June 30, 2021, 10:52 pm
PA President Abbas meets King Abdullah in Amman as West Bank tensions rise
Sudden visit follows protests over death of Palestinian Authority critic Nizar Banat while in custody; Hamas chief Haniyeh meets with Islamic Jihad leader Nakhaleh
By Aaron Boxerman
File: Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry, left, gives a joint statement with Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Monday, July 20, 2020. (Mohamad Torokman/Pool via AP)
December 19, 2020, 5:27 pm
Amid normalization push, Egypt, Jordan, PA say only 2 states will solve conflict
Meeting in Cairo, foreign ministers agree to seek cooperation on Palestinian statehood with incoming Biden administration, speak out against settlement expansion
By ToI Staff
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas meets with Jordanian King Abdullah II on November 29, 2020. (WAFA)
November 29, 2020, 8:55 pm
Abbas heads to Jordan, Egypt for first state visits since pandemic started
King Abdullah reaffirms support for two states in meeting with PA president, who will sit down with el-Sissi on Monday in trip following Ramallah’s renewed ties with Israel
By Aaron Boxerman
Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi (left) meets with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in Ramallah, on June 18, 2020 (Wafa news agency)
June 18, 2020, 10:25 pm
Jordanian FM warns of ‘long and violent’ conflict if Israel pursues annexation
Ayman Safadi meets with Abbas as Amman pushes against Israel’s plans to annex parts of the West Bank, reportedly tells PA president to appeal directly to Trump to stop plan
By Aaron Boxerman
Jordan's Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi delivers his speech during a United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, UNRWA, conference, in Rome, March 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)
June 18, 2020, 3:55 pm
Jordanian FM makes rare trip to Ramallah for annexation talks
Ayman Safadi meets with Abbas as Jordan pushes against Israel’s plans to annex parts of the West Bank; PA source says international pressure is working
By AFP and ToI Staff
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