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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 617

Palestinians in Jordan

Jordan's King Abdullah II (R) is greeted by US President Donald Trump at the White House on June 25, 2018. (AFP Photo/Brendan Smialowski)
February 6, 2025, 9:20 pm
Trump’s bid to push out Gazans is an ‘existential threat’ to Jordan, say analysts
King Abdullah II has rejected the scheme, is set to meet Trump next week; Jordan, which relies on US aid, has a fraught history with its sizable Palestinian population
By AFP and 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
Palestinian-Jordanian Abdullah Abu Jaber, who was jailed in Israel after planting a bomb on a bus that wounded 13 civilians in 2000, is welcomed by his family upon his release at the Sheikh Hussein Crossing between Jordan and Israel on June 8, 2021. (Khalil MAZRAAWI / AFP)
June 8, 2021, 5:22 pm
Tel Aviv bus bomber freed from Israeli prison, gets hero’s welcome in Jordan
Abdullah Abu Jaber planted a bomb on a bus 20 years ago, injuring 13 civilians; upon his release, he says he did his ‘duty as a Palestinian’
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Two boys climb their UNRWA school's gate in Al Nasr refugee camp in Amman, Jordan, February 1, 2010, after the end of the first day of the second semester of the school year (AP Photo/Mohammad Abu Ghosh)
November 3, 2019, 5:25 pm
Jordanian schools, clinics shut as UN Palestinian agency strikes
Around 7,000 UNRWA workers walk out after demanding raises as agency faces unprecedented financial crisis
By Agencies
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
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