JaFaJ spoke to a source from the Jordanian General Intelligence Department (GID) who accused Muslim Brotherhood leader Ghazi al-Dweik of direct and substantial involvement in financing weapons-smuggling operations supplying terrorist groups in the West Bank. According to the source, the intended recipients include Hamas’s Al-Qassam Brigades and militants involved in terrorist activity in refugee camps, including Jenin Refugee Camp. The source identified him as a terror financier who uses income from a successful private school to fund these operations on a medium scale.
Al-Dweik was elected first deputy secretary-general of Jordan’s Al-Ummah Party, formerly known as the Islamic Action Front, on 18 October 2026.
The source’s accusation was explicit: al-Dweik is actively financing operations that smuggle weapons to terrorists in the West Bank, using school-generated revenue to provide funding.
The GID source said al-Dweik’s name emerged during investigations into former Jordanian parliamentarian Imad al-Adwan’s weapons-smuggling case. According to the source, Jordanian intelligence summoned al-Dweik for questioning. Investigators subsequently received a telephone call from the Royal Hashemite Court demanding his release and instructing them to leave him alone, the source alleged.
The source described al-Dweik as a dangerous financial facilitator supporting weapons procurement and smuggling networks serving terrorist elements in the West Bank, including the Hebron area, from which his family originates. His specific contribution, according to the source, is financing the operations that deliver weapons to these groups.
According to information obtained by JaFaJ, al-Dweik holds a stake in and manages “Al-Watan Al-Arabi School,” a private school in eastern Amman. The GID source identified this successful educational business as a central source of the money used to finance the smuggling operations.
The source further alleged that the Muslim Brotherhood supports this financing arrangement and permits al-Dweik to direct income associated with the school toward weapons procurement and trafficking. The account describes medium-scale financing activity. It provides no monetary figure or shipment volume.
The allegation concerns the diversion of business income to finance weapons smuggling to terrorist groups. A separate allegation supplied to JaFaJ describes the school investment as a money-laundering vehicle; the financial transactions underlying that accusation were not provided.
JaFaJ separately spoke to a senior Israeli security source stationed in the southern West Bank. The source said al-Dweik is barred from entering Israel because he is considered a “security risk.” He declined to elaborate on the grounds for that assessment.
The GID source also accused al-Dweik of receiving Palestinians arriving from the West Bank and helping arrange their relocation to Turkey. The source identified some of these individuals as terrorist operatives and described al-Dweik’s assistance as part of a broader logistical role supported by the Muslim Brotherhood.
JaFaJ checked al-Dweik’s family background with a local leader residing in southern Hebron. The local leader described the family there as religiously fundamentalist and said some relatives maintain close connections with Hamas.
These accusations arise within a documented regional weapons-trafficking problem. In May 2024, Reuters reported Jordanian warnings about increasing incursions by weapons and drug smugglers operating from southern Syria. Jordanian sources said much of the clandestine weapons flow was destined for the West Bank, while some weapons were intended for use inside Jordan.
The al-Adwan case demonstrated the potential size of an individual shipment. Reuters reported in May 2023, citing Israel’s Shin Bet security service, that al-Adwan had been caught carrying 12 rifles and 194 pistols before being transferred to Jordanian custody. The allegation connecting al-Dweik to that investigation comes from JaFaJ’s GID source.
In April 2025, Jordan announced the arrest of 16 people accused of manufacturing rockets, possessing explosives and automatic weapons, and conducting illegal recruitment and training. Authorities associated the suspects with the Muslim Brotherhood, which denied involvement.
JaFaJ assesses that the central security concern in the source’s account is the alleged conversion of recurring commercial income into funding for weapons-smuggling operations supplying terrorist groups in the West Bank. A successful business could provide a continuing financial base for repeated procurement and trafficking activity.
Al-Dweik’s reported elevation to senior party leadership adds political significance to the allegations. The GID source portrays him as combining organizational standing, access to business revenue, and a direct financing role in smuggling weapons to terrorists in the West Bank, including Al-Qassam Brigades operatives and militants involved in terrorist activity in refugee camps such as Jenin.