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Blinken, regional top diplomats meet in Jordan to discuss Syria’s post-Assad transition

The end of the Assad family’s half-century rule has raised fears of further instability in the Middle East, a region already grappling with the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in Gaza and hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon Top diplomats from the United States, the Arab League, and Turkey met in the Jordanian port city of Aqaba on Saturday to discuss …

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8 months, 2 weeks ago

Israel to open new north Gaza crossing for overseas aid

Hindustan Times

Israel will open a new land crossing into the Gaza Strip designed mainly to facilitate deliveries to Palestinians of aid from overseas or neighbouring Jordan, Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said on Wednesday. Israel has gradually reopened two established cargo crossings and created a new crossing on its border, and last week announced it would admit Gaza-bound aid shipments at …

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1 year ago

Jordan urges global community to condemn any attempt to expel Palestinians

Firstpost

Jordan has denounced Israel’s attempt to construct new settlements in Arab East Jerusalem, the portion of the city under dispute that was taken during the 1967 Arab-Israeli War together with the West Bank and is recognised by the UN as occupied territory Jordan’s King Abdullah declared on Tuesday that the international community ought to denounce any effort by Israel to …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Gaza Conflict: Jordan doubtful whether Israel can destroy Hamas

Firstpost

Israel’s bombardment of Gaza has sparked concerns among international, regional, and UN authorities about who would lead the small, heavily populated region in the event that Hamas loses the enclave it has controlled for sixteen years The foreign minister of Jordan expressed scepticism on Saturday on Israel’s ability to completely destroy Hamas through its intense shelling and invasion of the …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Denouncing the Israel-Gaza war, the king and queen of Jordan are walking a delicate diplomatic tightrope

ABC

As the war in Gaza escalates, the unprecedented nature of the conflict is shifting dynamics within the Middle East, especially for Israel's next door neighbour, Jordan. "In normal times, Jordan has a fairly good relationship with Israel," says Ben Fishman, a senior fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East policy. A significant portion of Jordan's population also has Palestinian …

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1 year, 2 months ago

Biden leaves for Israel, scraps Jordan visit after summit with Palestine, Egypt leaders cancelled

The Hindu

President Joe Biden’s efforts to tamp down tensions in the escalating war between Israel and Hamas faced massive setbacks even before he departed for the Middle East on October 17, as Jordan called off the President's planned summit with Arab leaders after a deadly explosion at a Gaza hospital killed hundreds. He said Jordan would only host the summit when …

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2 years, 5 months ago

US seeks extradition of Palestinian attacker in Jordan

Associated Press

JERUSALEM — The U.S. said Monday it is still seeking the extradition of a Palestinian woman in Jordan convicted of aiding a suicide bomber in Jerusalem in 2001. The Roths have been waging a campaign for the extradition of Tamimi since she was released by Israel in a 2011 prisoner swap with the Hamas militant group and sent to her …

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2 years, 5 months ago

Parents of slain Israeli-American girl seek Biden meeting

Associated Press

JERUSALEM — The family of an Israel-American girl killed in a 2001 Palestinian suicide bombing in Jerusalem is seeking a meeting with President Joe Biden in hopes of forcing Jordan to extradite a woman convicted in the deadly attack. “Something is obviously terribly wrong with how the pursuit of America’s most wanted female fugitive is going,” the Roths wrote in …

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