Today, Wednesday, the Jordanian Parliament approved a proposal to expel the Israeli ambassador to Amman, Eitan Surkis, on the background of the Israeli Finance Minister's statements in which he denied "the existence of the Palestinian people."

The vote came during a session held by the parliament based on a proposal by MP Khalil Attia, where Parliament Speaker Ahmad Al-Safadi read a statement that said: “We in the parliament are calling on the government to take effective measures towards the occupation government’s finance minister’s use of a map of the so-called Israel that includes the borders of the Kingdom of Jordan and the Occupied Palestinian Territories."

The statement added: "This is something that cannot be tolerated, and constitutes a violation of the peace treaty and international norms."

Jordan and Israel have a peace treaty signed between the two countries in 1994.

The proposal, which was demanded by many members of the Council, needs to be submitted to the government to decide whether to accept or reject it.

The Israeli Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, claimed that the Palestinian people are an invention dating back less than 100 years.

Smotrich appeared on a podium during his speech in Paris, on which there is a so-called "Map of the Land of Israel" that includes both Palestine and Jordan, claiming that "there is no such thing as a Palestinian people."

"There is no such thing as the Palestinian people," Smotrich said, during his speech to the participants in the evening to commemorate Kupfer, adding that "this (the Palestinian people) is nothing but an invention dating back less than 100 years."