After decades of occupation and tutelage .. Jordan regains its sovereignty over Baqoura and immersion

JERUSALEM - Jordan on Sunday banned Israelis from entering Jordanian territory in Baqoura and Ghamr (which Israelis call Nahariyim) after a contract expiring Israeli farmers, 25 years after a peace deal was signed.

According to the annexes to the peace agreement signed on October 26, 1994, Israel has been given the right to dispose of these lands for 25 years, which will be renewed automatically if the Jordanian government does not inform Israel of its desire to reclaim these lands a year before the expiry of the term. Done by the kingdom.

King Abdullah II decided last year to restore the lands of Baqoura, east of the junction of the Jordan and Yarmouk rivers in Irbid governorate (north), and immersion in the Wadi Araba area in Aqaba governorate (south) from Israeli tutelage.

An official source at the Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Affairs said that there is no extension or renewal of the two special annexes to the Jordanian-Israeli peace agreement, which issued two special regulations that regulated the right of use granted by the agreement to Israel.

The source added that Jordan has exercised its legal right embodied in the agreement not to renew the two annexes, and respects its legal obligation to respect any rights derived from the agreement, which is limited to respecting private property in Baqoura and allowing the harvest of what was planted before the expiry of the two attachments in the immersion, according to Jordanian law.

He added that with regard to Baqoura, the peace agreement recognized private ownership of 820 dunums (1,000 dunams), and that Jordan would allow any Israeli citizen to prove his ownership to obtain a visa from the Jordanian Embassy in Tel Aviv to enter the Kingdom through official borders, and would respect the right of ownership. According to Jordanian law and according.

The source in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that for the lands of immersion, land owned by the treasury, and the agreement granted Israel the right to benefit from them ended today with the completion of the annexes.

Al-Jazeera correspondent in Amman quoted a high-level Jordanian source that the Kingdom will allow the harvesting of what was planted before the expiry of the annexes, according to Jordanian law and according to it, where visas will be granted to farmers through the embassy in Tel Aviv to enter the region according to the law, without any exceptions were granted according to Supplement.

According to Agence France-Presse that the yellow gate leading to a bridge over the river that separates the two countries, from which Israeli farmers enter the Baqoura.

The Wadi Araba treaty, officially signed, ended decades of state of war between the two countries, but it has not gained popular legitimacy in Jordan to date, but in the eyes of the largest segment of Jordanians whose country bordering Israel and the Palestinian territories, more than half of them are of Palestinian origin; An enemy. "

Baqoura is located east of the junction of the Jordan and Yarmouk rivers in Irbid governorate (north). The total area is estimated at about 6,000 dunums, while the immersion is located in the Wadi Araba area in the governorate of Aqaba (south).