Israel closes its land borders with Jordan, Egypt
Regional-Israel, Politics, 9/14/2001

Israel has closed its land borders with both Jordan and Egypt as from Tuesday night until unlimited time, following the suicide attacks launched against the USA and on the opposite side decided to open its airspace gradually before foreign planes companies. An Israeli military spokesman said on Wednesday that border crossing were closed on Tuesday evening and he does not know when it will be re-open.

However, a spokesman for the Israeli ports stressed that ships movement continue.

In Amman the Jordanian authorities explained that Israel since Wednesday morning closed the two dams of King Hussein which is allocated to individuals and bridge Prince Muhammad which is dedicated to commodities and shipment before the departure movement and the trailers to the territories of the Palestinian national authority and Israel with the exception only the Israeli citizens.

The measures took by Tel Aviv covered suspension of flights of the Jordanian royal flights via the Israeli airspace " for security reasons."

However, the Israeli minister of transport Afraem Seneh decided on Wednesday to re-open the Israeli airspace gradually before planes of foreign companies.

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