AMMAN, Jordan — Efforts to organize a million-person march on the Israeli Embassy in Jordan’s capital concluded on Thursday with about 200 pro-Palestinian protesters cordoned off by nearly as many Jordanian police and security officers in a vacant lot about a mile away from the diplomatic mission.

Despite the low turnout, the protest attested to the ripple effect of the political tumult in the Middle East. It also exposed some of the deep divisions within the Arab world and among the Palestinians themselves.

Fears of possible violence, especially after the ransacking of the Israeli Embassy in Cairo last week, led the Israeli ambassador here in Jordan’s capital and most of the embassy’s staff members to leave for Israel a day ahead of the pro-Palestinian rally as a precautionary measure. An Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman said he expected them to be back at work on Sunday.

The turnout was clearly a disappointment to many of the participants, who demanded the closing of the embassy, the expulsion of the ambassador and the annulment of the 1994 Israeli-Jordanian peace treaty as part of the wave of political ferment in the region.