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News ID: 42141
Publish Date : 25 July 2017 - 21:51

Angry Jordanians: Cancel Zionist Peace Treaty


AMMAN (Dispatches) -- Thousands of Jordanian mourners chanted "death to Israel" as they attended the funeral Tuesday of a teenager shot dead by a Zionist embassy security guard.
Muhammad Jawawdeh, 17, was killed Sunday after he allegedly assaulted the guard with a screwdriver at the embassy compound, according to Zionist officials.
A second Jordanian national was also killed, apparently by accident, and will be buried Thursday.
The killings sparked a standoff between the occupying regime of Israel and Jordan amid tensions over a highly sensitive Jerusalem Al-Quds holy site where the Zionist regime put in place a virtual siege after a deadly mid-July shooting.
Mourners set off with Jawawdeh's coffin from Wihdat city, home to a large Palestinian refugee camp east of Amman, towards the cemetery in nearby Umm al-Hiran, where he was buried.
They carried pictures of the 17-year-old along with Palestinian and Jordanian flags, and chanted "Death to Israel."
"We will go to Al-Quds as martyrs by the millions," they chanted.
Jawawdeh's uncle, Sami, said the family is urging Jordan's King Abdullah II to avenge his death "because he is the one who can decide in such matters."
"Muhammad's blood did not flow in vain," he added, saying it paved the way for Israel's removal early Tuesday of metal detectors at entrances to the Haram al-Sharif mosque compound.
The occupying regime of Israel had installed the devices following a July 14, attack nearby that killed two police officers.
The move, seen by Palestinians as an attempt to assert Zionist control over the site, triggered Muslim outrage and deadly violence.
Jordan is the official custodian of Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem Al-Quds.
King Abdullah of Jordan spoke with Zionist PM Benjamin Netanyahu late Monday urging him to remove the devices.
Thousands of Jordanians had demonstrated against Israel in Amman and other cities, calling for "resistance" to "Zionist attacks" and demanding the cancellation of a 1994 peace treaty.
Also on Monday, the security guard and other diplomats flew home after Amman investigators heard "his account of the incident", a Jordanian government source said.
Jordanian riot police deployed Tuesday morning around the Israeli embassy in a western Amman residential neighborhood after activists posted online calls for an anti-Zionist demonstration.