Jordanian authorities have informed Hamas that they must find a place to deport freed prisoner Ahlam Tamimi within 24 hours or she will be handed over to the United States.  

In March 2017, Jordan's Court of Cassation, the highest judicial authority in the country, upheld a ruling by the Amman Court of Appeals rejecting the extradition of Ahlam Tamimi to the U.S., where she is accused of killing American citizens in an attack carried out in occupied Palestinian territories.  

According to *Al-Araby Al-Jadeed*, citing unnamed sources, Jordan has demanded that Hamas relocate Tamimi, who was exiled as part of the 2011 *Wafa Al-Ahrar* (Shalit) prisoner exchange deal.

The sources confirmed that Amman officially informed Hamas in Doha of its decision: either the movement finds a new place for Tamimi or Jordan will surrender her to Washington, following a previous American request.  

The sources added that Jordan refuses to accept any of the freed prisoners with Jordanian citizenship under the recent ceasefire agreement between Hamas and Israel.  

As part of the first phase of that agreement, which took effect on January 19, Israel released two Jordanian citizens who were previously imprisoned.  

The report noted that Tamimi’s family has long urged Hamas to include her case—given that she holds both Jordanian and Palestinian citizenship—in negotiations with Israel, especially since Hamas is holding detainees with American and Israeli citizenship.  

During Donald Trump’s first term in office, in 2020, the U.S. administration considered cutting aid to Jordan—one of its key regional partners—as a means of pressuring Amman to hand over Ahlam Tamimi. Israel convicted Tamimi in connection with a 2001 bombing that killed 15 people, including two American citizens.  

Ahlam Tamimi is a Palestinian journalist and was the first woman to join the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas. She was sentenced to 16 life terms in Israeli prison for her role in a bombing operation in Jerusalem on August 9, 2001. Born in 1980 in Zarqa, Jordan, Tamimi moved to Palestine with her family after completing high school and later pursued a degree in media studies at Birzeit University in the West Bank.