How can Jordan respond to Israelโs escalation across the West Bank?
Settlement expansion, displacement and growing Israeli control would have direct consequences for Jordan.
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Settlement expansion, displacement and growing Israeli control would have direct consequences for Jordan.
As flight FZ 1073 from Dubai to Tel Aviv approached the Jordanian border on Wednesday, passengers knew in an instant that something was wrong when the plane began plummeting from the sky in a rapid dive. It was like "we were having very big turbulence, but there was no turbulence", passenger Almog Italie told AFP, describing the sensation of losing thousands of feet of altitude in seconds as similar to riding a "rollercoaster". FRANCE 24's August Hakansson reports.
Jordan's King Abdullah II decried Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank as a strategy of โforced displacement.'
Emmanuel Macron welcomes Lebanese President Joseph Aoun and Jordan's King Abdullah II to Paris today for talks on Lebanon's security and international support for the Lebanese army. The meeting comes as France pushes to prevent a security vacuum ahead of UNIFIL's planned withdrawal at the end of 2026, with Israeli strikes continuing in southern Lebanon and concerns growing over who will secure the border. FRANCE 24's Luke Shrago has the latest.
State news channel, Al Mamlaka, says the southern port of Aqaba was evacuated as a precaution.
Tehran appears to be increasingly targeting Jordanian assets in the latest round of escalation with the US.