Abu Jaber, 44, accomplished a 20-year sentence for planting a bomb on an Israeli bus in December 2000.
The longest-serving Jordanian prisoner in an Israeli jail has arrived dwelling after finishing a 20-year sentence for planting a bomb on an Israeli bus.
Abdullah Abu Jaber, 44, was arrested after the explosive system went off on the bus in Tel Aviv and injured greater than a dozen individuals in December 2000.
He was one of many hundreds of Jordanians who discovered informal work in Israel after the 2 international locations normalised ties with a peace treaty in 1994.
Abu Jaber, who was amongst 22 prisoners held in Israeli jails, headed to his mother and father’ dwelling within the teeming Baqaa Palestinian refugee camp close to the Jordanian capital Amman, witnesses stated.
Individually, international ministry officers stated Israel had dropped expenses towards two Jordanians who had been arrested final month for allegedly crossing the border carrying knives.
The authorities had put them on trial shortly after their arrest.
Jordan, which has the longest border with Israel, is a detailed Western ally.
Final month, it witnessed giant protests towards Israel’s army marketing campaign in Gaza and its crackdown on Palestinian worshippers and protesters in Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.
Political ties between the 2 international locations have been strained over Israel’s therapy of the Palestinians, and the Jordanian authorities has confronted rising public strain to scrap the unpopular peace treaty.
Most of Jordan’s 10 million residents are of Palestinian origin. They, or their mother and father, had been expelled or fled to Jordan within the 1948 struggle to determine the state of Israel.
They’ve shut household ties with their kins on the opposite facet of the Jordan River within the occupied West Financial institution and East Jerusalem, each captured by Israel within the 1967 struggle.