DaysofPal- Jordan has issued a 24-hour ultimatum to Hamas, demanding the group find a new location for Ahlam Tamimi, a freed prisoner from Israeli jails, or face her extradition to the United States.
A ruling by the Amman Appeals Court that denied Ahlam Tamimi’s extradition to the United States was upheld in March 2017 by the Jordanian Court of Cassation, the country’s highest court. She has been accused of participation in killing Americans in a bombing attack in the occupied Palestinian territories.
According to the newspaper “Al-Araby Al-Jadeed,” which cited anonymous sources, Jordan demanded that Hamas make sure the liberated prisoner from the 2011 Gilad Shalit deal was taken out of Jordan. The sources verified that Amman formally notified Hamas in Doha of its choice: either Jordan will turn over the released prisoner Ahlam Tamimi to Washington following a prior U.S. ruling, or Hamas will need to find a place for her.
The report states that Jordan officially conveyed its decision to Hamas representatives in Doha, making it clear that Amman would not allow Tamimi to remain in the country. Jordan has also reportedly refused to accept any freed prisoners with Jordanian nationality as part of the recent ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel. In the first phase of the agreement, which took effect on January 19, Israel released two prisoners holding Jordanian citizenship, but Jordan declined to receive them.
Tamimi’s family has urged Hamas to include her case in negotiations with Israel, particularly since Hamas is holding detainees with American and Israeli citizenship.
During Donald Trump’s presidency, the U.S. administration pressured Jordan to extradite Tamimi, even considering withholding aid to the country in an attempt to secure her transfer.
Tamimi, a Palestinian journalist born in 1980 in Zarqa, Jordan, was the first woman to join Hamas’s Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades. She was sentenced to 16 life terms in an Israeli prison before her release in the 2011 prisoner swap.
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