Jordanians demonstrated on Friday to urge the government to shut the Zionist embassy and annul the signed peace treaty after a Jordanian judge was shot dead by a Zionist soldier at a border crossing.
Jordanians demonstrated on Friday to urge the government to shut the Zionist embassy and annul the signed peace treaty after a Jordanian judge was shot dead by a Zionist soldier at a border crossing.
Hundreds of demonstrators chanting "no Zionist embassy on Arab land" gathered near a mosque in the Rabia district of the Jordanian capital close to the Zionist embassy.
Security forces deployed in large numbers around the area to prevent protesters reaching the heavily guarded embassy. Some scuffles occurred but there was no serious violence.
Jordan's parliament also demanded the government expel the Zionist envoy, and hundreds of Jordanian judges and lawyers staged a rare protest inside the chamber of the palace of justice, the highest state court building, trampling on dozens of Zionist flags rolled on the floor.
A Zionist soldier shot dead Raed Zeiter, 38, a respected Jordanian judge, at close range on Monday after a heated argument broke out while he was making his way to the West Bank via the Allenby bridge border crossing.
The shooting incident triggered in Jordan the biggest public outpouring of anger against the Zionist entity in the last few years.
The timing of the shooting incident stung since the United States has been seeking Jordanian support for the faltering Zionist-Palestinian peace talks.
The Zionist government expressed regret on Tuesday at the killing of the Jordanian judge and promised Jordan a joint investigation into his death, but fell short of apologizing for the incident.
Hours before, the Zionist military had issued a statement denouncing Zeiter as a "terrorist", claiming he was killed after attacking security personnel with a metal bar, trying to seize a gun and attempting to strangle a soldier.
Jordan is one of only two Arab states to have formally ended hostilities with the occupation entity but this has never won much domestic favor.
