New reports suggest that since the start of the Gaza war on October 7, Jordan has been supporting Israel in different ways.
A new report from the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar revealed this Sunday the deep level of cooperation between Jordan and Israel, boosted even more since October 7.
According to the report, this cooperation includes attempts at “sabotaging intra-Palestinian talks hosted by China, joint interrogations of Palestinian prisoners in the occupied West Bank, and further confirmation of a land bridge running from the Jordanian–Saudi border to the occupied Palestinian territories. “
“Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas responded to an official Jordanian request that he and the Fatah movement not participate in the Palestinian dialogue [that was meant to be held] in China at the end of June,” the report noted, citing a source close to the Palestinian presidency.
The Al-Akhbar report also reveals that since the start of the Gaza war on October 7, Jordanian security services have been deployed in the occupied West Bank and have assisted their Israeli counterparts in suppressing Palestinian resistance and interrogating Palestinian prisoners.
“Jordanian security services continue to work alongside Israeli intelligence and US forces on the Iraq-Syria border to prevent weapons from being smuggled to the Palestinian resistance in the West Bank. Jordan is one of the main smuggling routes for West Bank-bound weapons,” the report said.
The report also further confirms the existence of a land bridge through which goods are being delivered into Israel via Jordan – which aims to circumvent the effects of the maritime blockade imposed on Israeli shipping by the Yemeni army and the Ansarallah resistance movement.
“A state of popular rage has begun to spread across Jordan after information was revealed about the [Jordanian] regime circumventing the maritime embargo imposed by the Ansar Allah movement in Yemen on the Israeli occupation,” said the report, citing informed sources in Amman.
More Jordan-Israel collaboration on the way!
In addition to the deep level of cooperation on different grounds between Jordan and Israel listed in the abovementioned report, Jordan also now hosts the only headquarters of the NATO office in the Middle East, a matter that seems to increase the military and intelligence cooperation between Israel and this Arab country.
According to the statement of the Jordanian government, the establishment of the first NATO liaison office in the Middle East in Jordan, which was officially announced on Thursday, July 11 and during the meeting of NATO members in Washington, “is the result of close cooperation and strategic relations between Jordan and the military alliance in the region led by the United States.”
Last but not least, Jordan was the only Arab country to help Israel deter Iranian missiles and drones back in April. Iran launched its missiles and drones at Israel on April 13 in response to an Israeli strike on an Iranian consulate in Syria on April 1 that killed 12 people, including two Iranian generals. Almost all of them were intercepted by Israeli defense forces, in collaboration with the U.S., Britain, France and Jordan’s air forces.
