2024-07-27 12:00:11
Many Jordanians gathered early Friday July 26 in the center of Amman in support of the Palestinians in Gaza. They support America’s support for Israel in its war in the Palestinian territories, and the inaction of Arab countries, criticize the Palestinian Authority and sing their support for Hamas.
The left side is in this week’s shows in Jordan. But the Islamists are the main force of mobilization. They hope to build on the sentiment fueled by Israel’s brutal reprisals on Gaza since the deadly Hamas attack in October 2023. The Jordanian government monitors their popularity closely, as legislative elections are scheduled for September. 10.
In a statement issued on July 23, the Islamic Action Front, the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, denounced the continued arrests. “Troops” and retention of members after declaring their election in the next election.
“Fort sentiment pro-Hamas”
A first wave of arrests took place in the fall of 2023, these are the pro-Palestinian external mobilization, which calls for the cancellation of the peace agreement between Jordan and Israel signed in 1994. The Islamists are, since then, part of the target of security services. The secretary of another Islamist party, the Coalition and Salvation Party, Ayman Sandouka was arrested in December 2023. Convicted of “defamation against a trade union” after he criticized the treatment of relations between Jordan and Israel, he was later accused by the prosecutor of the State Security Court, a military unit, for “an incentive to oppose the political regime”. In another twist of chaos, the offices of Al-Yarmouk television, linked to the Muslim Brotherhood, were closed in May; he cooperated with the Al-Aqsa Hamas channel, which received the images.
“The pressure on political Islamic circles is partly due to the fear of conflictis considered a good connoisseur of Jordanian politics. But by maintaining control of public space, authorities run the risk of fueling more hostility. »
“Islamists have taken center stage since the October protests [2023]. The state does not want Gaza to be used as a flag for elections: hence the arrests, even temporary ones, analyze a journalist who is close to Islamist circles. Authorities measure, among Jordanians, a strong pro-Hamas sentiment, perceived as a force of resistance to Israel. A rebellion in the kingdom would be dangerous for the kingdom, and for Israel. » In June, security forces announced that they had discovered two caches of explosives in the Amman area and made arrests.
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