Jordan has lifted recently imposed restrictions that prevented Palestinians from entering the kingdom via the King Hussein Bridge, a senior Palestinian official said Tuesday, quoted by the Associated Press, in a report published by the Jerusalem Post.
Just last week, Jordanian authorities put a limit on the number of Palestinians entering the kingdom from the West Bank. The limit was restricted to Palestinians with Jordanian passports without a national number and holders of Jordanian green cards.
On Tuesday, Jamil Tarifi, the Palestinian Authority's civil affairs minister, told the Associated Press that the situation had "returned to the previous state."
He said a Palestinian request had led to the elimination of last week's measures. He declined to provide more details, said the agency.
Tarifi confirmed the end to the ban in a report by the UAE's Al Bayan Arabic daily, saying that regardless of the card, “yellow or green,” Palestinians could enter Jordan.
Jordan and the Palestinian Authority had said that the restrictions were intended to stop Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's aims and policies to "displace the Palestinian people from their homeland and replace them with Jewish settlers."
Jordan’s minister of interior said at the time that the measure was “temporary.”
An estimated 1.2 million Palestinian refugees live in 13 Jordanian refugee camps. More than half the kingdom’s population is of Palestinian origin, and has links with their families in the West Bank – Albawaba.com
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