AMMAN — Israel’s embassy in the Jordanian capital, Amman, will resume full operations immediately, the Israeli prime minister’s office declared on Thursday.

Jordan said Israel had formally apologized for the deaths of two of its citizens killed by an Israeli security guard last July. The incident has soured ties and led to the closure of the Israeli embassy in Amman, the Jordanian Petra News Agency said.

“Israel and Jordan have reached an agreement following the incidents at the embassy in Jordan on July 23, 2017 and in the incident in which a Jordanian judge was killed in March 2014. Israel’s embassy in Jordan will return to full operations immediately,” a statement said.

Jordan had said it would not allow Israel to reopen its embassy in Amman until it launched legal proceedings against the security guard.

Jordan maintained that even if the guard had diplomatic immunity, he could still be punished.

Israel has now pledged to “implement and follow up legal measures” in the case and also take action in the shooting of an unarmed Jordanian judge by an Israeli soldier in an incident in 2014, Jordanian government spokesman Mohammad al Momani was quoted by state news agency Petra.

Israel would pay compensation to the three families, he said.

Israel said at the time the armed guard opened fire after being attacked and lightly wounded by the workman, who was delivering furniture at his home within the embassy compound, and acted in self-defense. Israeli officials called it a “terrorist attack”.

Israel then said it was highly unlikely that it would prosecute the security guard.

Jordanian officials have treated the shooting as a criminal case and say the two unarmed Jordanians – the other was a bystander – were killed in cold blood by the armed guard.

The government statement said the Israeli government had met all of Jordan’s demands for the return of the ambassador and the reopening of the embassy.

Many Jordanians, in a country where the peace treaty with Israel is unpopular and pro-Palestinian sentiment is widespread, were outraged that the guard was allowed to leave and staged protests calling on the authorities to scrap the 1994 peace treaty.

A televised welcome home for the guard and a hero’s embrace from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had enraged King Abdullah. In a rare outburst, he accused Netanyahu of using the incident as a “political show”, saying it was “provocative on all fronts.”