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Two Jordanians die in shooting at Israeli embassy in Amman: security source
REFILE - ADDING RESTRICTIONS Policemen are seen near the Israeli embassy in Amman, Jordan July 23, 2017.
AMMAN (Reuters) - Two Jordanians died from wounds inflicted during a
shooting on Sunday in the compound of the heavily-guarded Israeli
embassy that also wounded an Israeli, police and a security source said.
Police said earlier that the two Jordanians worked for a furniture firm
and entered the embassy compound before the shooting to do repairs.
Police did not identify the wounded Israeli, and few other details were
immediately available.
Israel has imposed a ban on reporting the incident and has made no public comment.
The fortress-like embassy in the affluent Rabae district of the capital
Amman is protected by Jordanian gendarme. It has long been a flashpoint
of anti-Israeli protests at times of turmoil in the Palestinian
territories.
Violence against Israelis is rare in Jordan, a tightly policed country
that is also a staunch regional ally of the United States and signed a
peace treaty with Israel, the Arab neighbor with which it shares a long
border.
But tensions have escalated between the two countries since Israel
installed metal detectors at entry points to Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem
after two Israeli policemen were shot dead by three Arab-Israeli gunmen
on Friday near the site.
The new security measures have triggered the bloodiest spate of Israeli-Palestinian violence for years.
Jordan has called for the removal of the metal detectors and thousands
of Jordanians have protested against the Israeli move in an outpouring
of public anger against Israel.
Jordanian police said after Sunday's shooting that they sealed off the
embassy compound and deployed dozens of anti-terrorism gendarmie forces.
"We have started a large scale investigation into the incident and
ordered the prosecutor general to look at all the details," the police
said in a statement.
Initial checks suggested the two Jordanian men had entered the embassy compound as workmen, the statement said.
Many of Jordan's 7 million citizens are of Palestinian origin. They or
their parents or grandparents were expelled or fled to Jordan in the
fighting that accompanied the creation of Israel in 1948.
Israel has in the past given repeated assurances that it understands
Jordan's concerns and does not seek to alter the status quo in the
Muslim holy sites of Jerusalem.
Reporting by Suleiman Al-Khalidi; Additional reporting by Ori Lewis in Jerusalem; Editing by Gareth Jones and Daniel Wallis