Jordanian police cordon off area near Israeli embassy after gunshots heard, witnesses say

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Jordanian police cordon off area near ******** embassy after gunshots heard, witnesses say

AMMAN (Reuters) -Jordanian police cordoned off an area in the vicinity of the ******** embassy in the capital Amman after gunshots were heard, witnesses said on Sunday.

Two witnesses said police and ambulances rushed to the Rabiah neighborhood, where the embassy is located, after sporadic gunfire was heard.

Police called on residents to stay in their homes as security personnel conducted a search for the culprits, a security source said.

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The area near the heavily policed embassy is a flashpoint for frequent demonstrations against *******. The kingdom has witnessed some of the biggest peaceful rallies across the region as anti-******* sentiment runs high over the war in Gaza.

Many of Jordan’s 12 million citizens are of ************ origin, they or their parents having been expelled or fled to Jordan in the fighting that accompanied the creation of ******* in 1948. Many have family ties on the other side of the Jordan River.

Jordan’s peace treaty with ******* is widely unpopular among many citizens who see normalisation of relations as betraying the rights of their ************ compatriots.

(Reporting by Suleiman Al-Khalidi and Jaidaa Taha; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)

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