A soldier in khaki uniform, weapon in hand, monitors the entrances to al-Hussein hospital, named after the father of the current King of Jordan, in the city of Salt, about thirty kilometers away. west of Amman, the capital of the Hashemite kingdom.
A kingdom, wedged between Israel, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia, in the heart of a Middle East in perpetual turbulence.
"Al-Hussein as-Salt new hospital", we read on the porch of this establishment opened only eight months ago on one of the three hills of this peaceful city which overhangs the valley of the Jordan, Israel and Palestine.
It was around this public hospital that the crisis that shook Jordan as the country celebrated its centenary accelerated.
A break in broad daylight, unprecedented, between members of the royal family: on one side, Abdallah, the 59-year-old monarch, on the other, his half-brother, Prince Hamza, 41, with a canvas of background of hatred and a drama linked to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Raw nerves
March 13, around
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