Jordan’s Overseas Ministry says a Jordanian lawmaker has been arrested by Israel on suspicion of smuggling weapons and gold into the occupied West Financial institution
AMMAN, Jordan — Jordan’s Overseas Ministry on Sunday mentioned a Jordanian lawmaker has been arrested by Israel on suspicion of smuggling weapons and gold into the occupied West Financial institution.
The ministry’s spokesman, Sinan Majali, mentioned Jordanian officers are following the case “to search out out the deserves of the scenario and deal with it as quickly as potential.” The lawmaker was recognized as Imad Al-Adwan and mentioned to have been arrested crossing the border into the Israeli-occupied West Financial institution.
Israel’s Overseas Ministry declined remark.
The incident threatens to additional pressure what already are tense relations between Jordan and its neighbor Israel.
The West Financial institution has seen a surge in violence over the previous yr. Israel says the world has been flooded with unlawful weapons, together with weapons smuggled from neighboring Jordan.
Over 90 Palestinians and 18 Israelis have been killed within the West Financial institution and east Jerusalem this yr. Israel says a lot of the Palestinians had been needed militants, however stone-throwing youths protesting military incursions and other people not concerned in confrontations have additionally been killed. All however one of many Israelis killed had been civilians.
Since Israel’s hard-line authorities took workplace, relations with Jordan have deteriorated over Israeli settlement development, violence within the West Financial institution and insurance policies over holy websites in Jerusalem’s {Old} Metropolis.
Jordan managed the West Financial institution and east Jerusalem earlier than Israel captured the areas within the 1967 Mideast struggle, however the kingdom retains custodianship of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and different Muslim holy websites within the {Old} Metropolis.