About 2,000 Jordanians demonstrated outside the Kaluti Mosque in Rabia neighbourhood in Amman in the night of September 15 urging the closure of the Israeli Embassy and the abrogation of the peace treaty with Israel. The security authorities cordoned off the area and set up metal barricades outside the mosque to prevent protesters from proceeding to the Israeli mission which was earlier evacuated of its staff by the Israeli government.
Participants, mainly belonging to the Islamic-led opposition, trade unions and Pan-Arab groups, chanted slogans and raised placards urging the government to cancel the peace pact Jordan signed with the Zionist state in 1994. Activists earlier called on Facebook for a demonstration of one million participants, but the call apparently failed possibly because of unprecedented security measures taken by the authorities. One of the slogans during the protest was: “The Qur’an is our constitution and Jihad is our path.”