A restaurant has opened in Jordan named after the October 7 attacks in neighbouring Israel.
Footage was posted on social media that the restaurant in Karak Governorate in southern Jordan that showed the shawarma restaurant, with the date of the attack displayed over the doorway.
The clip was published on social media by Dima Tahboub, a former member of parliament, writer, political analyst and a member of Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood, a conservative Islamist organization.
The video shows the inside of the restaurant, with staff wearing "October 7" themed uniforms.
Footage of the restaurant caused outrage on social media
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The footage was met with outrage from opposition leaders in Israel.
Opposition leader Yair Lapid tweeted: "The disgraceful glorification of October 7th has to stop. The incitement and hatred against Israel breeds the terrorism and extremism which led to the brutal massacre of October 7th. We expect the Jordanian government to condemn this publicly and unequivocally."
Israel’s Ynet news site reported Thursday afternoon that it had spoken on the phone with the owner of the restaurant.
It was reported that the owner said the name had been changed to just "October" and claimed that the name had not been meant as a political statement and was entirely unrelated to the Hamas attack.
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Opposition Leader and Member of Knesset (Parliament) Yair Lapid condemned the restaurant
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has voiced opposition to Palestinian sovereignty, saying he will not compromise on full Israeli security control west of Jordan and that this stands contrary to a Palestinian state.
Jordan has previously said that Israel was placing many obstacles to the entry of aid into Gaza. Israel, which screens goods going into Gaza and holds back aid it deems to be used for military purposes by its enemy Hamas, denies hampering aid.
The country, which has been in the forefront of Arab neighbours pushing Israel to allow more aid, is the only country that airdrops aid to Gaza to two military field hospitals it runs.
Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said: "The reality now is that Israeli measures are preventing sufficient aid from arriving and only a fraction is being delivered."
In Khan Yunis, the second largest city in GazaT tousands of displaced Palestinians who took refuge from Israeli shelling in a UN compound are preparing to flee south to Rafah after Israeli forces nearby ordered them to leave.
A Gaza health ministry spokesman says Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis is operating at only 10 per cent of capacity in "harsh and frightening conditions", having run out of food, pain killers and anaesthesia medications.
Palestinian health officials said at least 25,700 people have been killed in Gaza.
The Israeli military said on Thursday it had killed more than 9,000 Hamas militants and lost 220 soldiers in 3-1/2-month-old war. Neither sets of figures have been verified.