A person opened fire on a patrol operating in the embassy area, according to the official agency. Three members of the Jordanian security services were injured.
A man was shot dead at dawn on Sunday after opening fire on security forces in the Israeli embassy area of the Jordanian capital Amman, and three members of the security services were injured, the media said. official agency. “The Directorate of Public Security announced that it encountered an incident of shooting on a patrol in the Rabieh area of the capital, Amman, at dawn on Sunday”according to the Petra agency.
“A person opened fire on a patrol operating in the area, where security forces arrived (…) and located the shooter who tried to flee”according to the agency citing the authorities. The man, “pursued and surrounded, began firing shots at the security forces, who in return applied the rules of engagement, which allowed the perpetrator to be killed”she added.
Protests against the Israeli embassy have regularly taken place in recent years in the Rabieh neighborhood in the northwest of the Jordanian capital.
