Jerusalem ( CNN ) -- The Israeli Embassy in Amman on Thursday sent home all but a skeleton staff due to security considerations , an Israeli Foreign Ministry official told CNN . The official , who asked not to be identified in keeping with diplomatic protocol , said the staffers typically travel from Amman to Israel every Friday and Saturday . They were sent home a day early this week after last week 's ransacking of the Israeli Embassy in Cairo by protesters and plans for anti-Israel protests this week in Amman . The turnout for Thursday 's demonstration in the Jordanian capital , however , was small . The full embassy staff is expected to return Sunday to work in Amman . Anti-Israel demonstrations have been taking place in Amman for the past several weeks . One group , called `` Million Man March to Close the Israeli Embassy in Jordan , '' has more than 3,000 members on its Facebook page . The group 's motto is : `` No Zionist embassy on Jordanian land . '' The main group calling for the protests seems to be an organization called Jamee al-Kalouti , or JAK . Dozens of its members have protested at the embassy every Thursday for years to denounce Jordan 's ties with Israel . The group calls for the expulsion of the ambassador and annulment of the 1994 peace treaty that established diplomatic relations between Jordan and Israel . Eyewitnesses reported that security was increased around the already-fortified embassy in the western part of Amman in anticipation of the protest . More than half of Jordan 's 6.5 million residents are of Palestinian origin . In Cairo on September 9 , an estimated 3,000 Egyptian protesters tore down a wall surrounding the building that houses the Israeli Embassy there and entered its offices , tossing papers bearing Hebrew writing from the windows and into the streets . An Egyptian commander at the embassy told CNN that security personnel were ordered to avoid confrontations with protesters , who cheered the embassy 's demolition and chanted calls for the ouster of Israel 's ambassador to Egypt . However , the Egyptian Health Ministry told the state-sponsored Al-Ahram newspaper that three people were killed and more than 1,000 injured in clashes between security forces and demonstrators . Amnesty International said 130 people were arrested . Egypt 's military leaders promised the following day to re-establish order . Officials reactivated the country 's emergency law , according to Mohamed Hegazy , spokesman for the prime minister . The government also vowed to try those responsible for the attack on the Israeli Embassy , which pushed Israel to withdraw its diplomatic personnel from Egypt , Hegazy said . Amnesty International warned of the consequences of the expanded emergency law , calling it `` the greatest erosion of human rights since the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak earlier this year . '' Egyptians have been angry about the killing last month of five Egyptian police officers by Israeli soldiers when Israel went after militants who had attacked civilians near the Israeli-Egyptian border . Since the revolution that ousted Mubarak in February , many Egyptians have taken to the streets to call for the end of diplomatic relations with the Jewish state . After the incident , Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel will stick to its 1979 peace agreement with Egypt . CNN 's Jomana Karadsheh and journalist Amy Hybels contributed to this report .
NEW : Turnout at the protest is small . The protest group 's motto is `` No Zionist embassy on Jordanian land '' The move comes a day early in anticipation of an anti-Israeli protest . In addition to Jordan, there are also protests planned for other Arab countries including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait.