Just as the beautiful days that Jordanians lived through, the year 2022 witnessed sad days and unfortunate issues that raised Jordanian public opinion for days and shook the feelings and conscience of Jordanians.
These moments will be immortalized in the Jordanians’ memories because of their tragedy and gravity, the last of which was a few days ago, when Jordan lost 4 public security men following the protests against the rise in fuel prices in Jordan, where one of the people with takfiri ideology opened fire on 3 security men who went out to arrest Colonel Abd al-Razzaq al-Dalabeh fought in al-Husayniyyah district in Ma’an, so that they all died.
University student Iman Irsheed
The Jordanian governorates shared the bodies of the four security men in the presence of a crowd, and great tears, which ended the year 2022 for Jordanians with grief and tears.
• Smuggling drugs from Syria
On the Jordanian-Syrian border, drug smuggling operations escalated, and the most prominent of these operations, in the first month of 2022, led to the killing of a captain in the Jordanian Armed Forces, and the injury of three other individuals.
in the middle of the year; The Jordanian authorities have escalated their campaign against drug smuggling and trade, by addressing infiltration and smuggling into the kingdom’s border areas with Syria, and monitoring storage and distribution dens within its territory through raids and arrests.
The commander of the eastern military region, Brigadier General Naji Al-Manasir, said, “Changing the rules of engagement in force in the armed forces makes the army strike with an iron fist to kill anyone who dares to approach Jordan’s borders.”
• The killing of a university student
The case of the killing of university student Iman Irsheed, who was shot by a person inside the University of Applied Sciences in the Jordanian capital, Amman, was one of the most sad and controversial issues that aroused the interest and sympathy of Jordanians for the year 2022.
The crime took place on 23-6-2022, killing a girl inside the University of Applied Sciences, after someone fired shots at her.
And the Jordanian authorities announced that the person accused of killing the student of the University of Applied Sciences, Iman Irsheed, shot himself when surrounded by the security services.
• Aqaba port incident
On the 27th of June, grief descended on the city of Aqaba, in southern Jordan, after a tank containing toxic chlorine gas fell while trying to transport it in the port of Aqaba, killing 13 people and more than 200 injured.
The incident shocked the whole of Jordan, from north to south, because of the suspicious scenes shown by the surveillance cameras at the moment the tank fell and exploded, and the port workers jumped into the sea water, so that the port of Aqaba recorded a black day in its history.
• Al-Weibdeh Building
Among the sad events that Jordan experienced in the year 2022 was on the 13th of September, when the residents of the Jordanian capital, Amman, suffered a sudden collapse of a residential building consisting of 6 apartments on a ground house, which resulted in the death of 14 people, and the injury of 9 others, as the rescue operations continued for more than 72 hour.
Sadness and tears turned into joy and hope when the rescue teams extracted the child, “Malak”, after staying for nearly 30 hours under dozens of tons of rocks and rubble, with the great efforts of the civil defense men.
• Truck strike
With the government raising the prices of oil derivatives for the eighth time in one year, and the prime minister’s statements about the government not having the luxury of subsidizing fuel, a strike of freight vehicle drivers began on 4-12-2022, which expanded to include most means of transportation, in most of the Kingdom’s governorates.
• The death of 5 siblings in a house fire
On the nineteenth of August, Jordanians were shocked by the death of the five children of lawyer Ahmed Al-Daajah, following a fire that broke out in their home in Rusaifa.
Al-Da’ja mourned his children, saying: “God’s destiny and whatever He wills, O God, there is no objection.” All five of my liver – Salman, Sultan, Aryam, Reem and Malak – are under the protection of God. Oh God, I ask you for patience and solace.
Specific crimes
In terms of social bloody crimes; In the year 2022, Jordan recorded specific crimes that sparked widespread controversy, and the month of July was the bloodiest, recording four family crimes in which seven lives were lost, as the first crime occurred on the fifth of it in the Ramtha District, after two girls were subjected to violence and beating with a sharp object by the father, Which led to their death and burial in the vicinity of the house.
The second was in Ajloun Governorate, where a man in his seventies shot his two sons over financial disputes. The third crime was in Al-Balqa governorate, when a young man in his twenties killed his sister with a gunshot, following a dispute between them. The fourth crime claimed the lives of a male and female child in the capital, Amman. A report was received at the East Amman Police Directorate stating that a husband had strangled his wife and two children (6 and 8 years old).
A woman also killed her son-in-law and burned his body, due to family disputes. A woman in her fifties was killed after being stabbed several times due to theft. A suspect stabbed her on the pretext of theft in the Ramtha district of Irbid, and a husband in Jerash killed his wife and son after shooting them.
In a crime that is considered one of the most heinous family murders; A husband set his house on fire and burned himself, killing his three children instantly.
A child also ended his life with a gun by shooting himself with his father’s weapon in the capital, Amman.