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Palestinians in Jordan
Jordanian protesters wave the national and Palestinian flags during a demonstration near the Israeli Embassy in the capital Amman in solidarity with the Palestinians on October 16, 2015. (Khalil Mazraawi/AFP)
July 28, 2019, 8:45 am
Trump’s peace plan rings alarm bells in Jordan
Analysts in Israel’s Palestinian-majority neighbor warn failure to create independent state in West Bank could ‘wipe out’ Jordanian identity
By Mussa Hattar
Former Jordanian prime minister Abdelsalam al-Majali in a TV interview on August 18, 2018. (Screenshot: YouTube/MEMRI)
August 30, 2018, 9:24 am
Jordan PM who signed Israel peace deal: Haifa should be taken by force if we can
‘If we ever have military power, will we let them keep Haifa? We’ll take it,’ Abdelsalam al-Majali says in TV interview, while praising Israel for water supply
By Michael Bachner
Protesters wave Turkish and Palestinian flags as they shout slogans against Israel and USA during a demonstration in Istanbul on May 11, 2018, against US President Donald Trum's policy to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital and move the a US embassy to the city. (AFP PHOTO / OZAN KOSE)
May 12, 2018, 12:46 am
Thousands rally in Turkey and Jordan to protest US embassy move
Demonstrations come days before culmination of Palestinian protests timed to coincide with move of US embassy to Jerusalem
By TOI staff and Agencies
Palestinian women embroider at a workshop in Jordan's Jerash Palestinian refugee camp, north of Amman on November 5, 2017 (AFP PHOTO / KHALIL MAZRAAWI)
November 27, 2017, 5:36 am
From Palestinian refugee camp to London, Paris, Dubai boutiques
Social project in Jordan aims to help local women sell their embroidery abroad, providing income to impoverished families
By Kamal Taha
Jordanian mourners carry the body of intelligence corporal Omar al-Hayari, one of the five Jordanian intelligence agents killed during a gun attack at the Palestinian refugee camp of Baqaa, on June 6, 2016, during his funeral in Salt, a town west of the capital Amman. (AFP/Khalil Mazraawi)
June 7, 2016, 2:52 am
Suspect held over Jordan attack in which 5 intelligence agents killed
Motive of attack in Palestinian refugee camp under investigation, but authorities suspect gunman was a jihadist
By Kamal Taha and Mussa Hattar
An Irbid, Jordan, shopowner who painted an Israeli flag on the floor of his store. (Facebook screen capture)
December 30, 2015, 2:14 pm
Jordan arrests man for desecrating Israeli flag
Authorities in kingdom reportedly question shopkeeper on charges of hurting relations with a friendly country
By TOI staff
King Abdullah II of Jordan addresses the UN General Assembly in New York on September 28, 2015 (screen capture: YouTube)
October 23, 2015, 10:16 pm
Jordanian king ‘has demanded that Abbas calm tensions’
Abdullah II reportedly expressed concern that violence will spill over to Jordan and destabilize country, according to Channel 10 report
By TOI staff
Illustrative: The Arava desert. (Batya Ben Zvi/public domain/via Wikipedia)
April 19, 2015, 4:57 am
Jordan border residents seek fence to prevent future terror
Arava locals establish volunteer patrol amid fears that 200-km stretch of open border with Hashemite kingdom is vulnerable
By TOI staff
Omar Mahmoud Mohammed Othman aka Abu Qatada (photo credit: AP/Matt Dunham, File)
June 26, 2014, 2:29 pm
Militant cleric acquitted by Jordanian court
Abu Qatada, a Palestinian-born preacher, still faces other terrorism charges and will remain in prison
By AFP
Former interior minister Gideon Sa'ar (photo credit: Abir Sultan/Flash90/File)
June 9, 2014, 2:35 am
Likud minister calls for Jordan role in solving conflict with Palestinians
Echoes of ‘Jordan is Palestine’ formula in Gideon Sa’ar’s assertion that peace deal including ‘a Jordanian component’ could work
By Raphael Ahren
March 31, 2014, 5:31 pm
Jordan’s Abdullah: Chance for peace deal won’t be repeated
In meeting with opposition leader Herzog in Amman, king calls on sides to not let negotiations ‘blow up’
By Haviv Rettig Gur
The father of Raed Zeiter grieves over his son's body during his funeral in the northern West Bank city of Nablus, on March 11, 2014 (photo credit: AFP/Jaafar Ashtiyeh)
March 17, 2014, 10:58 am
Jordan king visits family of ‘martyr’ judge
Palace tweets photo of Abdullah II hugging a family member of Palestinian Jordanian judge killed by IDF
By AFP
Blue Stars of David painted in the foyer of the Amman courthouse where Jordanian-Palestinian judge Raed Zeiter, killed while crossing into the West Bank, worked. (photo credit: Michal Shmulovich)
March 14, 2014, 5:22 am
Judge’s shooting exposes internal tensions in Jordan
Amid mystery over Raed Zeiter’s fatal trip, some in Amman see his death at the border as a Palestinian issue, rather than a national one
By Michal Shmulovich
Jordan's King Abdullah II (photo credit: Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90)
February 24, 2014, 4:03 pm
Jordan won’t be Palestine, king says
Abdullah II warns domestic opponents that calling for the Hashemite Kingdom to be the Palestinian state is ‘sedition’
By TOI staff
A Syrian refugee woman and her young son shop in a grocery store in Zarqa, Jordan's industrial center where thousands of Syrian refugees are living northeast Amman, Jordan. More than 420,000 Syrian refugees have settled in Jordan's cities, struggling for survival on UN foods stamps and straining the meager resources of a country that absorbed millions of exiles from the region's hotspots in the past. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)
October 30, 2013, 12:35 am
Syrian refugees face hardships in Jordan’s cities
Living hand-to-mouth on UN cash aid and food vouchers, 423,000 newcomers make rents rise and wages fall as they try to fit in
By Karin Laub and Mohammed Daraghmeh
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