Jordan’s AMMAN According to official media and a security source, a shooting near the Israeli embassy in neighboring Jordan left one shooter dead and three police officers wounded on Sunday.
According to state news agency Petra, which cited public security, police shot a shooter who had opened fire on a police patrol in Amman’s Rabiah neighborhood. They also said that investigations were still on.
Mohamed Momani, the minister of government communications for Jordan, called the shooting a terror assault that targeted the nation’s public security services. Investigations into the attack are underway, he added in a statement.
Witnesses reported hearing gunshots, prompting Jordanian police to block off a section close to the tightly guarded embassy. According to two witnesses, police and ambulances raced to the embassy’s location in the Rabiah neighborhood.
The region is a hot spot for regular anti-Israel protests. As anti-Israel fervor rages over the conflict in Gaza, the kingdom has seen some of the largest nonviolent protests in the region.
According to a security source, police had asked locals to remain inside their houses while security guards looked for the offenders.
Due to their expulsion or their parents’ flight to Jordan during the 1948 war that accompanied the establishment of Israel, a large portion of Jordan’s 12 million citizens are of Palestinian descent. On the Israeli side of the Jordan River, many people have family ties.
Many Jordanians oppose the peace pact with Israel because they believe that normalizing relations will violate the rights of their Palestinian neighbors.
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