Atef Tarawneh, Speaker of the Jordanian Parliament, announced on Tuesday that the parliament refused to approve the participation of an Israeli delegation in an international summit held in Jordan this week, according to Jordanian media. Tarawneh added that the Chamber called on the organizers of the summit not to have any Israeli representation in the event.

He explained in a press conference that in this step, the Jordanian Parliament is demonstrating that it holds a different position to the official Jordanian stance on the peace agreement between Israel and Jordan. While the leadership’s policy is to maintain the peace agreement, the House of Representatives boycotts Israel and treats it as an enemy state.

The 2016 Women in Parliaments Global Forum (WIP) is scheduled to open in Amman on Wednesday, marking the first time it has been hosted in the Middle East.

IDF and Border Police forces arrested 12 Palestinian terror suspects overnight and have taken them for questioning. Four of them are members of Hamas, while eight are suspected of participating in violent riots during which they endangered civilians and security forces.

Additionally, an IDF force discovered and seized an M16 rifle and two magazines in a house in Hebron.

Three Israelis were injured in a suspected car-ramming attack in the Benjamin region, west of Ramallah. The incident is under investigation, an IDF spokesperson announced.

A helicopter has been scrambled to transport the wounded.

This is a developing story. 

The Jerusalem District Court issued its sentencing of  Yosef Chaim Ben David today, sentencing him to a life in prison and approximately US$40,000 in damages to the family of his victim.

Ben David was convicted last week of the murder of 14-year-old Palestinian Mohammed Abu Khdeir in July of 2014.

Yesterday, Judea’s military court convicted Mourad Bader, a 16 year old Palestinian who stabbed and murdered Daphna Meir a few months back, in her home in the Judean town of Otniel.