AMMAN — The Jordanian street rallied again on Monday near the
Israeli embassy in
Amman’s Rabieh neighborhood, protesting the normalization
between Jordan and
Israel.
اضافة اعلان
The attendees, which included men and women from all generations,
voiced their support for Palestine, amidst chants of nationalist anthems and
calls for the resistance.
Jordanians have been demonstrating daily since the beginning of the
latest flare-up between Palestinians and Israelis, to protest Israeli
violations against occupied Jersalem and in Gaza and the West Bank, and demand
the government take measures to deter Israel.
“What is the gas of the enemy? It is occupation in Amman,” the
crowd yelled, in reference to the gas deal signed between the Kingdom and
Israel — a $10 billion supply deal with a US-Israeli consortium led by
Texas-based Noble Energy, to provide gas to the country’s power plants for
electricity generation.
Protesters also chanted “normalization is treachery,” and “Palestine
is Arab, in history and in identity,” as they waved the Palestinian flag near Al-Kalouty
Mosque, the site of daily protests that have seen turnout in hundreds.
“You cannot imagine the despair we are feeling. We want to put
pressure on the international community so they can sanction Israel. This
applies not only to Jordan, but to every country that normalizes relations with
them,” Osama Hassouneh, aprotester at the scene, told Jordan News.
“But it does not seem like
there will be a response,” he added.
Mohammad Darawi, a member of the Jordanian Communist Party taking
part in the protest, told Jordan News that the “Zionist state is corrupt
and racist. It is incapable of sustaining its existence. The resistance will be
victorious.”
Darawi added that he stands against the Wadi Araba Treaty and the
gas agreement. “We stand in solidarity with our brothers in Palestine and the
power of the people should not be underestimated,” he said.
Twenty-year-old Salma slammed the actions of Israel and the “inaction
of the Jordanian government.”
“This is not something new,” she said. “This is ethnic cleansing
and occupation, and there is a big turning point as the world outside is
beginning to see this. People who are constantly fed Zionist propaganda are
finally realizing the reality of the situation.”
“There has to be a response. The government is supposed to
represent the people, and the Palestinians’ lives will not be lost in vain”
Salma said.
Holding banners that read “Israel is an apartheid state” and “It’s
not a conflict, it’s a genocide,” protesters seek to pressure the government into
taking action, according to protesters interviewed by Jordan News.
This series of protests began as Palestinian families in Sheikh
Jarrah, a neighborhood in Jerusalem, were facing forced evictions from their
homes, to make way for Jewish settlers.
Protests are set to kick off again on Tuesday at the same location,
and at the same time; 6pm.
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