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Israel’s foreign ministry has lodged a strong protest with Jordan over Ghunaimat's move, both to government officials in Amman and to the kingdom’s embassy in Tel Aviv.
On Monday, the ministry summoned Jordan’s envoy to Tel Aviv to clarify the incident.
Jordan insists it respects peace deal, after minister walks on Israeli flag
[IsraelTimes] The Jordanian Foreign Ministry on Sunday insisted that despite a recent incident in which Jordanian government spokeswoman Jumana Ghneimat was photographed walking over an Israeli flag, the government is committed to the peace agreement it has with Israel.
Jordanian Foreign Ministry front man Majed al-Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...neh reaffirmed "the (Jordanian) government’s respect for the peace treaty with Israel," adding that the flag incident was "being dealt with via diplomatic channels."
He said Jordan had told Israeli officials that the trade union building where Ghneimat had stepped on the flag "was private property" and that she "entered via the main entrance to attend an official meeting."
The response came after the Israeli Foreign Ministry protested to the Jordanian government over the incident last week at the Jordanian Professional Associations Complex in Amman.
Footprints were also printed on the flag, which was displayed at the entrance to the complex.
The image of the flag had been affixed to the floor for several years to protest Israel’s military rule and Jordan’s normalized ties with the Jewish state, union officials said.
Ghunaimat, who is also the media and communications minister, was praised on social media for stepping on the flag as she arrived for the meeting.
Media reports did not specify whether other ministers and bigwigs had stepped on the flag or chosen to enter the building through the side entrance.