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Published 22 Nov, 2023 02:16pm

READ: Jordan doesn’t rule out war with Israel if Palestinians are expelled en masse

Jordan has said the army had beefed up its presence along its borders with Israel and warned that any Israeli attempt to expel Palestinians across the Jordan River would represent a breach of Jordan’s peace accord with its far-right neighbour.

Prime Minister Bisher Khasawneh said his country would resort to “all the means in its power” to prevent Israel from implementing any transfer policy to expel Palestinians en masse from the occupied West Bank.

“Any displacements or creating the conditions that would lead to it, Jordan will consider it a declaration of war and constitutes a material breach of the peace treaty,” state media quoted Khasawneh as saying, referring to the 1994 peace treaty with Israel.

“This would lead to the liquidation of the Palestinian cause and to harming the national security of Jordan,” Khasawneh added.

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