Jordan tells Hamas it will extradite Ahlam Tamimi to US if no third country found: Report

Several Arabic media stations are reporting that Jordan will extradite Ahlam Tamimi to the US unless Hamas finds a third country to accept her. 

Tamimi was imprisoned for her role in the 2001 Sbarro pizzeria bombing in Jerusalem, which killed 15 people, including seven children. She was sentenced to 16 life terms, but freed  in a 2011 prisoner exchange with Hamas. After her release she lived in Jordan, where she has regularly made media appearances.

Ahlam Tamimi remains, however, wanted by the United States. In 2020, the previous Trump administration said that the billions of dollars it provides in aid to Jordan could be leveraged to extradite her.

In 2017 a Jordanian court ruled she could not be extradited as she has Jordanian citizenship and a 1995 extradition treaty with the US was not ratified by parliament.

 Al-Araby Al-Jadeed news outlet reported that Jordan informed Hamas to find a country to relocate Tamimi. 

The request comes after Jordan announced King Abdullah II will visit President Trump at the White House.