Jomana Karadsheh

You didn't have really many casualties here.

There was a lot of these missiles targeting and drones targeting Israel were being intercepted.

in Jordanian airspace.

But the impact that had on this country, it's devastating on so many levels, right?

The state of the economy in the country, and that is, of course, a security concern as well.

And then I think what you have is the official government position

and the population's position.

So during the war, Jordan, working with the US and other allies, was intercepting these drones and missiles, targeting Israel and targeting Jordan, targeting US bases in this country.

And so many Jordanians were against that.

They saw this as their country coming to the aid of Israel.

You have officials coming out and saying, look, we're doing this because we are a sovereign nation.

We need to be protecting our airspace.

We need to be protecting our people.

We need to intercept these Iranian attacks.

But people saw it as Jordan defending Israel.

And that created so much tension in this country.

And I think this is a byproduct of Israel.

what has happened in this region since October 7 and the war in Gaza, where you have a lot of people here who were happy to see Israel being targeted by Iran.

And I was just having these conversations with people yesterday where people were telling me, you don't understand.

Gaza changed everything for us.