Community and parliamentary actors and clan elders in Karak unanimously agreed that the clan jalwa poses a threat to social ties and forcibly displaces dozens of families without any guilt they have committed, except for the kinship of the perpetrator.

They added, during a dialogue symposium organized by the Karak Forum for Popular Activities on Thursday evening, that the tribal jilwa has social, economic, psychological and human rights consequences, which requires concerted efforts to mitigate its effects.

Representative Dr. Ghazi Al-Thneibat said that jilwa spread and flourished and became dominant in the social scene without controls or rules, and it is governed only by a tribal principle that is strongly revived and revived, pointing to the forced displacement of dozens of families in these difficult circumstances, and the subsequent burning of the homes of the displaced. After being evacuated from her family.

He demanded, officially and popularly, to reconsider the data of the jalwa and to legalize it with a minimum number of the offender’s family without arbitrariness and insult to human dignity guaranteed by the constitution, law and heavenly laws. Al-Thneibat indicated that he is working on an initiative within the National Assembly and with the official authorities and social activities to reach a societal formula that controls the breakdown of clan rallies and returns them to the offender only as an initial step to reach an understanding in the future to abolish the concept of jilwa. In turn, the forum’s president, Khaled Al-Damour, stressed the importance of concerted efforts to put an end to the turmoil, implement and activate the rule of law, and intensify the penalty for assaulting public and private property such as burning homes, crops and animals. During the symposium, clan elders and dignitaries called for the necessity of implementing and activating the law as the only way to put an end to the deportation of family members whose fault is nothing but kinship with the offender. Social and official initiatives binding on all. They pointed out that the society witnessed a great development in various aspects of economic, social and cultural life, as it witnessed transformations from the life of the desert and movement to a life of stability and settlement and a state governed by law and institutions, in addition to the population and urban expansion, which became, with the entry of the Kingdom of the Bicentenary, a great incentive to put an end to a custom and tradition that prevailed Traveling days with houses of hair.

(Petra)