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Treatment Of Badr Brigade In Gaza Not Expected To Impact Israel-Jordan Relations
2006-11-28
Reuters reports today that the 1,000-strong Badr Brigade of the Palestine Liberation Army is expected to be redeployed from Jordan to the Gaza Strip.
IMRA asked Mohammad Ben Hussein, a reporter on Middle Eastern Affairs at Jordan Times, if Israel-Jordan relations might be impacted if the Badr Brigade ends up suffering casualties in incidents involving the IDF.
Ben Hussein noted that the Badr Brigade is independent of the Jordanian Army and does not identify itself as being associated with Jordan. In addition, it is not expected that Jordanian security officials would be attached to the force.
He pointed out that during the course of Oslo many Palestinians bearing Jordanian citizenship joined various Palestinian security forces. When some of these Jordanian citizens were killed or wounded by Israeli forces the reaction of Jordan was no different than Jordan's reaction to incidents that did not involve Jordanian citizens.
Source: IMRA – Independent Media Review and Analysis
