Thousands of people demonstrated again late Sunday evening near the Israeli embassy in Amman, demanding the cancellation of the peace treaty with Israel and expressing their support for Gaza. The protesters, who gathered near Al-Kalouti Mosque in the Rabia area, about one kilometer from the Israeli embassy, raised Jordanian and Palestinian flags and held banners that read "The People Against Normalization" and "The People Want to Abolish the Peace Treaty with Israel," which was signed between the two countries in 1994 and is known as the Wadi Araba Treaty.
The demonstrators, numbering around three thousand, many of whom wore Palestinian keffiyehs, chanted "Wadi Araba is not peace, Wadi Araba is submission," "Rabia wants liberation from the embassy and the ambassador," and "America is the same, America is the head of the serpent." They also shouted "Death to Israel," "With our spirit and blood, we sacrifice for you, O Gaza," "From Amman, my peace to Islamic Jihad," "Revenge, revenge, O Al-Qassam Brigades," and "They said Hamas is terrorist, all of Jordan is Hamas."
At midnight, security forces dispersed the protesters, who had been given a deadline to demonstrate until twelve o'clock. The protests near the Israeli embassy have become daily since the beginning of Ramadan.
In early November, Amman recalled its ambassador to Israel and informed Tel Aviv not to return the Israeli ambassador who had previously left the kingdom. On Saturday evening, about five thousand Jordanians demonstrated near the Israeli embassy, demanding the cancellation of the peace treaty, which is unpopular among the public.
The public security department announced on Sunday that a number of protesters, including women, were arrested on Saturday near the Israeli embassy for attempting to assault security personnel and incite riots and block roads. They also reported the arrest of a number of "rioters" who tried to assault security personnel and property in the Al-Baqa'a Palestinian refugee camp, which houses over one hundred thousand Palestinian refugees, making it the largest of ten camps in Jordan located twenty kilometers north of Amman.
More than two million Palestinian refugees are registered in Jordan. The public security department stated that peaceful demonstrations are allowed but warned that they would not tolerate rioters and those inciting discord.
Jordan, where nearly half of the population is of Palestinian origin, has witnessed solidarity protests with the Gaza Strip since October 7. The attack on October 7 by Hamas on Israel resulted in the deaths of over 1,160 people on the Israeli side, most of whom were civilians, according to official Israeli figures. About 250 people were kidnapped during the Hamas attack, with 130 still held hostage in Gaza, and it is believed that 34 have died.
The war launched by Israel in the Gaza Strip in response to the attack has resulted in over 32,782 deaths so far, the majority of whom are women and children, according to the health ministry affiliated with Hamas.
