Mashaal allowed to enter Jordan more than a decade after he was deported from country; in 2009 he he briefly visited his dying father.
By REUTERSMashaal(photo credit: Archives)
AMMAN - Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal has been allowed into Jordan to visit his sick mother more than a decade after he was deported from the country, officials said on Thursday.It was Mashaal's second visit to Jordan since a crackdown in 1999, when the Amman offices of Hamas were closed and its top leaders were expelled for conducting illegal activities. He has set up home in Damascus since 2001.RELATED:This Week in History: The failed assassination of Mashaal Hamas official doesn't trust UN to grant Palestinian state
Mashaal was permitted to visit his dying father in Amman briefly in 2009. His father's funeral turned into a show of support for Hamas.Hamas has many supporters in Palestinian camps in Jordan, which hosts the largest number of refugees outside the West Bank and Gaza.
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