AMMAN (Palestine Foundation Information Center) Jordanian authorities have informed Hamas that it must find a place to deport the freed prisoner (from Israeli jails) Ahlam Tamimi from Jordan within 24 hours, or she will be handed over to the United States.
In March 2017, the Jordanian Court of Cassation, the highest judicial authority in Jordan, upheld a decision by the Amman Appeals Court that rejected the extradition of Ahlam Tamimi to the United States. She has been accused of participation in killing Americans in a bombing attack in the occupied Palestinian territories.
The newspaper “Al-Araby Al-Jadeed” reported, citing unnamed sources, that Jordan demanded Hamas ensure the removal of the freed prisoner, in the 2011 Gilad Shalit deal, from Jordan. The sources confirmed that Amman officially informed Hamas in Doha of its decision: either Hamas must find a location for the freed prisoner Ahlam Tamimi, or Jordan will hand her over to Washington based on a previous U.S. decision.
Sources indicated that Jordan refuses to accept any of the freed prisoners, who are deported and who hold Jordanian nationality, as part of the ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel. The occupying authorities had released two prisoners holding Jordanian nationality as part of the first phase of the agreement that came into effect on January 19 and Jordan refused to receive them.
The newspaper mentioned that the family of freed prisoner Tamimi has been demanding that Hamas place their daughter’s case, who holds both Jordanian and Palestinian nationalities, on the negotiation table with the Israeli occupation, especially since there are detainees held by Hamas who carry American and Israeli nationalities.
It is noted that during the first term of President Donald Trump, his administration considered withholding aid to Jordan, one of its key partners in the Arab world, in an attempt to force it to extradite the freed prisoner Ahlam Tamimi, whom the Israeli occupation convicted for a bombing that occurred in 2001, resulting in the deaths of 15 people, including two Americans.
Ahlam Tamimi is a Palestinian journalist and the first woman to join the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas. She is a freed prisoner from Israeli jails and was sentenced to 16 life terms after participating in a bombing operation in Jerusalem on August 9, 2001. Tamimi was born in 1980 in the city of Zarqa, Jordan, from which she left with her family after finishing high school. She returned to Palestine and began her university studies in media at Birzeit University in the West Bank.
