On Tuesday, a bombing attack killed six soldiers and injured a dozen more outside the Rukban camp, which is home to some 60,000 refugees, located in the area where the borders of Iraq, Syria, and Jordan meet.
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Worldwide aid workers warned the suspension of humanitarian aid to the area now put their lives at risk.
Tuesday’s attack, the first of its kind since the conflict in Syria began in 2011, saw a lorry full of explosives driven at high speed over the border from Syria and blown up beside a Jordanian military post.
Jordan-based worldwide aid officials confirmed Wednesday that the border area was sealed and that they couldn’t send aid there.
Momani said that Jordanians stand in unity against such attacks, stressing the government’s measures to preserve Jordan’s security and safety.
Amman has said its frontiers with Iraq and Syria are now restricted military zones.
Jordan’s economy is forecast to grow around 2.7 percent in 2016, less than the 3.5 percent previously forecast, due to the crises in neighboring Iraq and Syria, the country’s Finance Minister Omar Malhas said in April. “The bloody attack occurred just two weeks after the previous attack against a law enforcement facility in Amman, for which the terrorist group Islamic State claimed responsibility”.
The minister of state for media matters, Mohammad al-Momani, said the country is temporarily also halting the building and expansion of refugee camps. But he denied suggestions the terror group had penetrated refugee camps.
Judeh said that members of ISIS, whom he called “murderers”, had infiltrated some 100,000 people from the border area. Another statement issued by the armed forces said the booby-trapped auto used in the attack came from the camp.
“Terrorists strike again this time against our border guard”, Nasser Judeh, Jordan’s foreign minister, said on Twitter.
The United States strongly condemns today’s attack on Jordanian security forces, and expresses its deepest condolences to the victims, their families, and the Jordanian people.
The kingdom is a member of the US-led global military coalition against ISIL.
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Jordan says it is hosting more than 1 million Syrians, about 650,000 of whom are officially registered as refugees with the United Nations.
