Jerusalem, October 26: Israeli and Jordanian local officials have held a joint meeting for the first time after the Israeli offensive in Gaza earlier this year, Israeli sources say.
Israel’s deputy minister of development for Negev and al-Jalil, Ayoub Qara, arrived in Al-Aqaba city in south Jordan on Sunday to meet the city’s deputy governor, Bashir Belal, Israel Radio reported.
The two sides discussed the expansion of bilateral economic ties.
Qara is the first Israeli official to visit Jordan after Israel’s “Operation Cast Lead” in the Gaza Strip earlier this year.
The Israeli offensive into the impoverished Palestinian sliver hass killed more than 1400 Gazans and injured many more most of them women and children.
—–Agencies