Amman: Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi warned Sunday that Israel is “pushing the entire region towards a dangerous regional escalation by continuing its barbaric aggression against Gaza.”

Safadi said in a statement to the Jordan News Agency (Petra) that the Israeli war is killing innocents and depriving over 2.3 million Palestinians of water, food and medicine and aims to displace them.

He said, “Jordan, with all its capabilities, will counter the Israeli government’s attempts to displace Palestinians inside and outside their homeland,” adding that the Kingdom condemns displacement attempts as a war crime.

Safadi added that a future security-based approach to Gaza would entrench the state of oppression, despair and misery that Israel created through its colonial policy before and during the war on Gaza, which will keep the 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 fulfil all the rights of the Palestinian pe
ople will not achieve security and just peace and will spark more conflicts and wars.”

He added that ending the current Israeli war, protecting civilians and delivering humanitarian aid is an interim priority that the Kingdom is devoting its efforts to achieving.

He said Jordan refuses to talk about the day after Gaza before stopping the war and without adopting a comprehensive plan to fulfil the rights of the Palestinians fully.

He added, “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.”

He explained, “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-s
tate solution.”

He added that ending the occupation of Palestinian territories must come with clear objectives according to specific time frames and with “real guarantees.”

He said, “We do not want a new process that Israel will make a waste of time and during which it will perpetuate its occupation of Palestinian land. Based on the two-state solution, we are working to launch a plan with a clear goal, timings, and steps to resolve the conflict.

“We are coordinating this with our brothers in the Arab countries, and we discussed it with many of our partners in The international community.”

Safadi condemned the “extremist, racist, inflammatory” policies and positions of Israeli ministers who “demonise the Palestinians and deny their right to live on their national soil and the land of their fathers and grandfathers.”

He warned of the Israeli government’s extremist agenda, which its ministers are expressing openly, to continue the war against Gaza and expand it to the occupied West Bank and Lebanon to prolo
ng the life of its political leadership and drag the West into direct military confrontations in the region.

Safadi said the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and “racist extremist” ministers in his government say publicly that they want to displace the Palestinians from Gaza and that they reject the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination.

He discussed the need for the international community to take clear and direct positions in condemning extremist Israeli rhetoric.

He added, “Jordan will protect its interests, positions and principles to support the Palestinian cause and will continue to work to expose and confront Israeli extremism.”

He said the Kingdom would press for the Security Council to make legal, moral and humanitarian decisions to stop the war on Gaza and confront Israeli violations of international law.

Safadi added, “Nothing justifies the Security Council’s inability to decide to stop the barbaric aggression against Gaza, stop the war crimes committed by Israel there
and its inability even to impose a mechanism for bringing in humanitarian aid to confront the humanitarian catastrophe exacerbated by an aggression that crossed all legal, ethnic and humane lines.”

He added that the Security Council’s inability to stop the war reflected “dangerous double standards and selectivity in the system of international multilateral action and began to reflect seriously on the image and interests of many countries in the region.”

Safadi said, “The heinousness of the Israeli crimes in Gaza and the scale of the humanitarian catastrophe caused by the aggression changed the positions of many countries that voted in favour of the draft resolution presented by Jordan on behalf of the Arab group in the United Nations General Assembly.”

He added, “The killing, destruction and human suffering caused by the aggression eliminated the pretext of self-defence promoted by the Israeli government and revealed that the war is crude revenge and a means to translate the agenda of the extremist racists
in the Israeli government and the policies of its president to kill the two-state solution.”

Safadi said Jordan supports the lawsuit filed by South Africa against Israel on charges of committing the crime of genocide and will submit a legal case to the court, which will begin looking into the case within days.

Source: Jordan News Agency