U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Wednesday that Israelis and Palestinians are getting closer to resuming peace talks.

"Through hard and deliberate work, we have been able to narrow those gaps very significantly," Kerry told a press conference.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Jordan Tuesday on his sixth Middle East trip in as many months as he pushes for a resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

During his visit, Kerry is due to hold separate meetings with Jordanian leaders, Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and an Arab League delegation.

Jordan breathed a sigh of relief when Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood president was ousted because of the influence of its own opposition Islamists who have pressed for reforms, analysts say.

King Abdullah II and the government were quick to congratulate Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court Adly Mansour hours after he was declared caretaker president by army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi following Mohammed Morsi's ouster on July 3, stressing support for "the will and choice of the great Egyptian people".

Energy-poor Jordan said on Wednesday that gas supplies from Egypt will resume within 10 days following sabotage to the export pipeline by militants in the Sinai Peninsula.

"The Egyptian authorities are expected to resume gas supplies to Jordan in a week or 10 days," Jordanian Energy Minister Malek Kabariti told state-run Petra news agency after a cabinet meeting.

A military court on Wednesday postponed until next week a bail application by Islamist cleric Abu Qatada, who faces terror charges in Jordan following his deportation from Britain, his lawyer said.

"The state security court today postponed until next week its decision to look into my request to release Abu Qatada on bail," Taysir Diab told Agence France Presse.

Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood on Monday condemned the "massacre" of 51 loyalists of Egypt's ousted Islamist president Mohammed Morsi and urged more demonstrations to restore him.

"We strongly condemn the massacre committed by the neo coupists that has clearly showed the truth about the bloody military coup," the Islamic Action Front (IAF), the political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, said on its website.

Islamist cleric Abu Qatada pleaded not guilty on Sunday to terror charges pressed by Jordanian military prosecutors just hours after his deportation from Britain, his lawyer said.

Reporters were not allowed into the courtroom to hear the charges being read out despite a pledge by Information Minister Mohammad Momani of "transparency" in Jordan's handling of Abu Qatada's retrial on charges that already earned him a life sentence in his absence.

Prime Minister David Cameron spoke of his delight on Sunday after Britain finally succeeded in deporting the radical Islamist cleric Abu Qatada to Jordan after a decade-long legal saga.

"I was absolutely delighted. This is something this government said it would get done, and we have got it done," Cameron told reporters.

Egyptian security officials said Sunday that suspected Islamic militants have bombed a natural gas pipeline to Jordan south of the city of el-Arish in the Sinai Peninsula.

The attacks early Sunday on two points on the pipeline started fires that were soon put out, but the flow of gas was disrupted, said the officials.

The Jordanian government said on Sunday it seeks "credibility and transparency" in dealing with the case of Abu Qatada after Britain deported the radical Islamist cleric to Amman to face trial on terror charges.

"The government is keen on credibility and transparency in handling the issue of Abu Qatada," information minister and government spokesman Mohammad Momani, told the state-run Petra news agency.