Monday, June 08, 2020
Elder of Ziyon
On Monday, the Jordanian State Security Court sentenced five Jordanians to five years in prison with hard labor after convicting them of planning to carry out terror attacks in Israel.
According to the indictment, in mid-2017, the defendants "examined the border area south of the Dead Sea towards Aqaba, two separate times, in order to find a safe way to infiltrate the Israeli side to carry out military operations."
And after it became clear to them that it was impossible to infiltrate there because of tight security by the Jordanian army and the IDF, they submitted “requests to enter the West Bank under the pretext of visiting the Al-Aqsa Mosque through one of the tourism offices,” and that, after entering Jerusalem, they would work on “carrying out stabbing operations against the Jews,” but their requests were rejected.
After that, the accused decided, according to the indictment, "to submit applications to work in Eilat through one of the employment companies." Two of them submitted two applications, one of which was approved.
One of them, Taher Jamal, entered Israel on November 30, 2018, and attacked several workers with a hammer, injuring two. He was captured with the help of another Jordanian worker and was brought before an Israeli court the following month and charged with terrorism.
Jamal recorded a video in which he spoke of his intention to attack Jews in Eilat.
Jamal seems to be in Israeli prison as one of the men were tried in absentia.
The terrorists said they want to kill Jews, not Israelis. Yet for some reason no one in the media seems to ever refer to Jordanian antisemitism.
