Jordan’s authority has accused Israel of killing innocent people, depriving over 2.3 million Palestinians of water, food and medicine, and attempting to displace them, in ongoing military actions in Gaza.
Jordan’s foreign minister who made this known while speaking with News Agency, Ayman Safadi, on Sunday, described Israel’s ongoing military actions in Gaza as “barbaric aggression”.
According to Arab News, he warned of a potentially dangerous escalation in the region.
“Jordan, with all its capabilities, will counter the Israeli government’s attempts to displace Palestinians inside and outside their homeland,” he said, adding that the kingdom considers attempts to displace people to be a war crime.
A future security-based approach to Gaza, according to Safadi, would entrench the state of oppression, despair and misery that Israel created through its colonial policies before and during the current war, making conflict “the fate of the region.”
He added: “The occupation is the basis of all evil. Any approach that does not aim to end the occupation and fulfill all the rights of the Palestinian people will not achieve security and just peace and will spark more conflicts and wars.”
He said that Jordan would not talk about the day after in Gaza before the stoppage of the war, and without the adoption of a comprehensive plan to fulfill the rights of the Palestinian people.
“The main goal for which all efforts must be united now is to stop the barbaric aggression against the Gaza Strip and end the unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe it is causing.
“The Jordanian proposal is that after stopping the aggression, dealing with the situation in Gaza must be within the context of an integrated plan based on the solid unity of Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and starting with the recognition of an independent, sovereign Palestinian state along the lines of June 4, 1967, with Jerusalem as its capital according to the two-state solution.
"Ending the occupation of Palestinian territories must come with clear objectives, timelines and real guarantees. We are coordinating this with our brothers in the Arab countries, and we discussed it with many of our partners in the international community.”
He condemned the “extremist, racist, inflammatory policies and positions of Israeli ministers who ‘demonize the Palestinians and deny their right to live on their national soil and the land of their fathers and grandfathers”.
According to the report, he warned of the Israeli government’s extremist agenda to continue the war and extend it to the occupied West Bank and Lebanon to prolong its political leadership and drag the West into military interventions in the region.
He said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and “racist, extremist” cabinet ministers have publicly stated their desire to evict Palestinians from Gaza, and their rejection of the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination.