Police officer killed in Jordan as anger over fuel prices spreads
Al JazeeraMAY 2023
While the demonstrators' concerns are legitimate, violence isn't the answer, and these types of attacks must be quelled. Subsidizing fuel prices is no longer feasible due to the government's commitment to the International Monetary Fund, yet authorities have still promised to look into the protester's demands, which they should be left to do without having to deal with the ongoing riots.
How else do you expect the poor to demand change? Worsening living standards, rising unemployment, and devastating poverty have brought this unrest. If the government fails to meet the protestors' just demands, Jordan's economic woes could spark a fresh social upheaval in the kingdom.