The foreign minister said, “We all want peace. We all want a just and lasting and comprehensive peace. The path to this peace is not consolidating occupation. The path to this peace does not go through the continuous denial of the rights of the Palestinian people. The path to this peace cannot be awoken by denying the existence of the rights of the Palestinian people. The path to this peace goes through ending the occupation through implementing the two-state solution so that a Palestinian state on June 4, 1967 lines, with occupied Jerusalem as its capital, can live side by side with Israel in peace and security.”

“We have to act quickly because this war is not just killing innocent Palestinians. This war is also killing thirty years of work that started here in Spain to normalise the idea of peace, to convince peoples on both sides, that peace is the only path to security and to prosperity and to a life of dignity. That work is being rendered meaningless with the continuation of this war, as more people lo
se faith in the viability of the peace process,” Safadi underscored.

Safadi added, “the horrific cost of this war, dictates that we act in unison, and we act clearly, and we act firmly to stop a catastrophe that is threatening the security of the whole region and which will have repercussions that will go beyond the region, into our neighborhood, in Europe, and elsewhere.”

He further added, “International law was made so that everybody abides by it. It was not made so that some countries are allowed to break it. Israel is breaking international law. Israel has been acting as if it is above the law, and this has to stop.”

“Josep said something important: this is not a religious war. It never was a religious war. It is a war. It is a conflict, which is rooted in one country occupying another,” Safadi explained.

“We’re committed to a just and lasting peace,” Safadi reaffirmed. “Israel cannot have security unless the Palestinian people have security. Life should have the same value. Palestinian life and Israe
li life.”

Safadi noted that “today was a very important meeting, where we had deep conversations, agreements, disagreements, but we agreed on some fundamental issues. We agreed ý?that there should be no more killing. We all agreed that international humanitarian law must be respected. We all agreed that enough supplies should enter Gaza and all of Gaza, not just the south of Gaza, the north of Gaza as well. We all agreed that population transfer is unacceptable, that displacement, which is a stark violation of international law, is not acceptable. That the 1.7 million Palestinians who’ve been driven from their homes, after they have been destroyed in the north to the south of Gaza, should be able to go back to Gaza.”

Source: Jordan News Agency