{"id":49808,"date":"2019-11-11T08:40:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T00:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=49808"},"modified":"2019-11-11T10:11:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T02:11:20","slug":"israel-says-land-lease-deal-with-jordan-extended","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=49808","title":{"rendered":"Israel Says Land Lease Deal With Jordan Extended"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>JERUSALEM, Nov 11 (NNN-MA&#8217;AN) &#8211; A decades-long deal, enabling Israel to lease a Jordanian border territory has been extended by six months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Located in the Negev Desert south of the Dead Sea, the territory is called Tzofar in Hebrew and al-Ghamr in Arabic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A military spokesperson said, the lease had been extended with new terms through April, 2020. Under the agreement, the territory was declared &#8220;a closed military zone&#8221; with access allowed only to farmers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A security officer told the Hebrew-language news site of Ynet that, Israeli farmers entered the territory on Sunday morning to work the land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The deal will expire in the spring, which coincides with the end of the agricultural season in the region, after which Israel will return the territory to Jordan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tzofar was supposed to be returned to Jordan on Saturday, together with Naharayim, or Baqoura in Arabic, a land in the Jordan Valley where the Jordan and Yarmuk rivers meet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 1994 peace treaty, Jordan agreed to let Israel lease both sites for 25 years.&#8211; NNN-MA&#8217;AN <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM, Nov 11 (NNN-MA&#8217;AN) &#8211; A decades-long deal, enabling Israel to lease a Jordanian border territory has been extended by six months. Located in the Negev Desert south of the Dead Sea, the territory is called Tzofar in Hebrew and al-Ghamr in Arabic. A military spokesperson said, the lease had been extended with new terms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":49838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[300,217,194],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49808"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/49838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}