Jordan

PA continuing to pay terrorists in Lebanon, Jordan outside Western monitoring - PMW to 'Post'

Despite the Palestinian Authority's pledge to end the pay-for-slay policy, funding for terrorists abroad continues, including payments to those responsible for deadly attacks like Ahlam Tamimi.

|ByDANIELLE GREYMAN-KENNARD
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas waves as he arrives for the opening the Fatah youth conference in Ramallah on November 27, 2025.
An Israeli soldier walks next to the border fence between Israel and Jordan, in southern Israel near Eilat February 9, 2016.

Suspected terror infiltration determined false alarm, was Jordanian Border Police operation

The red alert in Paran was the result of Jordanian border police officers chasing criminals into Israeli territory.

|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM
An engineer shows devices and explains the technology developed by the Israeli firm Cellebrite's technology on November 9, 2016

Jordan officials use products from Israeli company to violate activists privacy, rights - report

The Citizen Lab states that the use of Cellebrite's tool "likely violates international human rights law."

|ByDANYA SAPERSTEIN
View of a new security drone in Efrat, in the West Bank

Weapons smuggling via drones poses a threatening new reality for Israel - analysis

The drone smuggling threat is growing, as the last attempts occured on the Egyptian and now apparently also the Jordanian border.

|BySETH J. FRANTZMAN

Jordan's Queen Rania compares Israel to Nazi Germany in Munich speech

Queen Rania misquoted Israeli officials, accusing them of spreading hate speech against Palestinians in the wake of Hamas's October 7 massacre.

NOVEMBER 5, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Jordan's Queen Rania Al Abdullah speaks during the Fundacion Telmex "Mexico Siglo XXI" (Telmex Foundation Mexico XXI Century) annual event in Mexico City, Mexico, September 5, 2025.

Jordanian lawyer disbarred for representing Israeli kibbutz in business dispute

A Jordanian lawyer was disbarred for representing an Israeli kibbutz in a business dispute. The lawyer seeks Israeli intervention, claiming discrimination.

OCTOBER 27, 2025ByMATHILDA HELLER
The kibbutz serves as a unique model of an ecological cooperative community

On This Day: Israel, Jordan sign 1994 peace treaty, ending forty-six years of war

Following Egypt in 1979, Jordan was the second Arab country in the Middle East to sign a peace treaty with Israel.

OCTOBER 26, 2025ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM
An image of the front page of The Jerusalem Post on October 27, 2025.

Turkish nationals charged over plot to smuggle firearms from Iran into Israel

Three Turkish nationals were charged in Nazareth with plotting to smuggle pistols from Iran into Israel through Jordan, including one accused of aiding terror.

OCTOBER 26, 2025BySARAH BEN-NUN
General view of the Lahav 443 police unit headquarters in the city of Lod on November 4, 2019.

Iraq launches probe after diplomat accused of taking towels from Jordan hotel

Iraqi diplomat accused of taking towels from Jordanian hotel, now she demands investigation and is receiving tribal support.

OCTOBER 20, 2025BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
A beach Towel is seen draped over a boat with the flag of Jordan (illustrative)

Jordan, Arab Parliament welcome Gaza ceasefire agreement

Jordan and the Arab Parliament praised the Israel-Hamas ceasefire, calling it a key step toward peace and urging urgent aid for Gaza.

OCTOBER 9, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Jordan's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi at a press conference in Amman, September 10, 2025.

'Peace finally feels obtainable': World welcomes imminent release of hostages, Gaza deal signing

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said that the "stakes had never been higher" for establishing a two-state solution.

OCTOBER 9, 2025ByJAMES GENN, JERUSALEM POST STAFF, REUTERS, TNS
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres exits the press room after speaking at the United Nations prior to a meeting about the ongoing conflict in Gaza, at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, U.S., November 6, 2023

Jordan sentences nine in Muslim Brotherhood plot against state

Nine defendants were sentenced after being accused of plotting to use drones and missiles in attacks on sensitive locations within Jordan.

OCTOBER 8, 2025ByREUTERS
Protesters in the Jordanian capital Amman fly the national and Palestinian flags as well as flags of the Muslim Brotherhood, as they rally in support of Palestinians on January 27, 2023

Palestinian mother of US Navy sailor evacuated from Gaza in coordinated operation - report

Ahlam Firwana was extracted through Israeli and Jordanian coordination after her son’s pleas to US officials.

OCTOBER 8, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
PALESTINIANS RELOCATE after the IDF issued evacuation orders in Gaza City in June. The writer asks: How is it that an army that warns civilians before striking and holds itself to impossible ethical standards is accused of genocide?

Israel deports 131 Gaza flotilla activists to Jordan, Jordan state news says

The activists were deported via the Allenby Bridge crossing.

OCTOBER 7, 2025ByREUTERS
Pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrate during a nationwide strike called by the USB union to condemn the Israel's interception of the Global Sumud Flotilla vessels aiming to reach Gaza and break Israel's naval blockade, in Bologna, Italy, October 3, 2025.