[2] After having engaged each other in five prior wars, the populations had become weary of the loss of life, and the negotiation of the accords and the treaty were considered a high point of the Middle Eastern peace process.
On 27 September 1997 eight Mossad agents entered Jordan using fake Canadian passports and attempted to assassinate Jordanian citizen Khaled Mashal, head of the militant Islamist Palestinian group Hamas.
[3] King Hussein was preparing for a 30-year Hamas-Israel truce three days prior to the attempt, after Hamas had launched two attacks in Jerusalem.
[3] Jordan then threatened to storm the Israeli embassy and capture the rest of the Mossad team, but Israel argued that it would be against the Geneva Conventions.
[3] King Hussein called American President Bill Clinton and requested his intervention, threatening to annul the treaty if Israel did not provide the antidote.
"[3] Khaled Mashal recovered, but Jordan's relations with Israel deteriorated and Israeli requests to contact King Hussein were rebuffed.
The treaty gives Jordan the right to do so only on one condition-that a one-year prior notice is given, which coincided with the announcement on 21 October 2018, by the King Abdullah II, who said that he does not intend to extend the lease.