(JNS.org) Thousands of Jordanians protested outside the Israeli Embassy in Amman on Friday, March 14 demanding Jordan sever ties with Israel over the death of Palestinian-Jordanian judge Raed Zueter, who was recently fatally shot after attacking an Israeli soldier at a border crossing. “We will not accept less than the annulment of the peace treaty and deportation of the Israeli ambassador and to announce that Jews are enemies for our nation,” Hammam Saeed, the general secretary of the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan, told The Associated Press.

Jordanian lawmakers last week met to discuss cutting ties with Israel. But on Friday, Jordan’s Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour said it was not in Jordan’s national interest to end its peace deal with Israel. According to an Israeli investigation, Zueter was shot after charging and attempting to take a soldier’s rifle while shouting “Allahu Akbar.”