{"id":27465,"date":"2018-12-30T21:22:37","date_gmt":"2018-12-30T21:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27465"},"modified":"2018-12-30T21:22:37","modified_gmt":"2018-12-30T21:22:37","slug":"israel-protests-against-jordan-minister-stepping-on-israeli-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=27465","title":{"rendered":"Israel protests against Jordan minister stepping on Israeli flag"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"95.2704243192\">\n<p class=\"speakable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/israel.html\">Israel<\/a> says it has filed a complaint to Jordan over a picture of a Jordanian government minister stepping on an image of the Israeli flag.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Jumana Ghuneimat, minister of state for information, was pictured last week stepping on the flag design when entering a meeting at a trade union complex in Amman. Footprints were also printed on the flag design.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The image of the flag has been affixed to the floor at the entrance to the complex for several years to protest against Israel&#8217;s occupation of the Palestinian territories and Jordan&#8217;s normalised ties with Israel, union officials say.<\/p>\n<p>Israel called Jordan&#8217;s ambassador in for clarifications on Sunday, the foreign ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>Ghuneimat was not answering her phone on Sunday and did not issue any public statements.<\/p>\n<p>Majed Qatarneh, spokesperson of Jordan&#8217;s foreign ministry, confirmed that Israel had sought clarifications over the incident and the ministry was handling the issue through &#8220;diplomatic channels&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Israeli side was informed that the building is a private one and the minister entered it from the main entrance for an official meeting,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We have emphasised that we respect the peace treaty with Israel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Jordanian Prime Minister Omar al-Razzaz was reported to have entered the building through a side door.<\/p>\n<p>Israel and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/jordan.html\">Jordan<\/a> signed a peace agreement in 1994, but relations have often been frosty amid differences over Israeli policies in Jerusalem, where Jordan is custodian over Muslim sites, and towards the Palestinians.<\/p>\n<p>The only other Arab state to have diplomatic relations with Israel is Egypt.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel says it has filed a complaint to Jordan over a picture of a Jordanian government minister stepping on an image of the Israeli flag. Jumana Ghuneimat, minister of state for information, was pictured last week stepping on the flag design when entering a meeting at a trade union complex in Amman. Footprints were also&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":27466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}