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Jordanian lawmaker should face trial for gun-running -Israeli minister

FILE PHOTO-Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen talks during a news conference with Cyprus Foreign Minister Constantinos Kombos and Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias at the Presidential Palace in Nicosia, Cyprus March 31, 2023. REUTERS/Yiannis Kourtoglou

Israel's foreign minister called on Monday for the prosecution of a Jordanian lawmaker held on suspicion of trying to smuggle weapons into the occupied West Bank.

Sunday's arrest of Imad al Adwan at an Israeli-controlled border crossing threatened new strains on the neighbours' almost three-decade-old relations, often tested by Israel's policies toward the Palestinians and a major Jerusalem mosque.

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