A Jordanian court on Wednesday convicted a former lawmaker of smuggling arms and other goods into Judea and Samaria and sentenced him to 10 years in prison with hard labor.
Israeli security forces arrested Imad al-Adwan in April 2023 at the Allenby border crossing for attempting to smuggle dozens of weapons into Judea and Samaria. They transferred him to Jordan, where prosecutors indicted al-Adwan, 35, at the State Security Court for smuggling and disrupting national security, Jordan’s Roya News reported.
Al-Adwan, who used his credentials as a lawmaker to smuggle the goods, had 12 assault rifles and 194 pistols in his vehicle.
The case involved 13 additional suspects, who were not named in reports about the sentencing. Three were convicted and received the same sentence as al-Adwan, one was sentenced to 15 years and the remaining nine defendants released or acquitted.
Between February 2022 and his arrest Al-Adwan had illegally transported various goods into Israel using his diplomatic passport on 12 occasions. These included birds, electronic cigarettes and gold.
Although al-Adwan was a member of the Jordanian parliament’s Palestinian solidarity committee, he is not Palestinian himself, according to the Al-Mashhad news site.
