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Published: November 14, 2023
Jordanian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Ayman Safadi confirmed that Israel has made civilians targets and created a miserable reality reflected in the huge number of Palestinians who have been martyred in Gaza.
Safadi said - in media statements today, Tuesday, that "everyone in the world understands the pain inflicted on Israeli civilians on October 7, but does that justify inflicting ten times this pain on Palestinian civilians including women, children, elderly, and others?".
He added that regardless of Israeli claims, they can in no way justify people dying simply because there is no medicine to treat them.
He pointed out that the killing of 11,000 Palestinians by Israeli soldiers, about 67% of whom are women and children, and depriving 2.3 million people in Gaza of their basic right to food, medicine, water, and electricity.
Safadi revealed that the Arab League and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation would start preparing files to document Israeli war crimes to take legal measures before international courts.
Safadi said: "No to Arab peacekeeping forces in Gaza," confirming that the Israeli approach toward the West Bank consists of building settlements, confiscating lands, and settlers’ terrorism against innocent Palestinians.
In the same context, the Speaker of the Jordanian House of Representatives, Ahmad Safadi, confirmed that what Gaza is witnessing of collective punishment, killing of civilians, and destruction of all vital facilities including hospitals and places of worship is not acceptable by divine laws nor human values.
Safadi added - in a dialogue meeting organized by the University of Science and Technology attended by a number of deputies, heads of blocs, and parliamentary committees, today, Tuesday, "We in Jordan, led by King Abdullah II, stand on a firm national front to defend Palestine and its steadfast people and support our people in the Gaza Strip in the face of the brutal aggression carried out by the usurping entity."
Safadi stressed that Jordan's position with all its institutions including government, deputies, notables, media, academics, and various segments of society is united behind its Hashemite leadership in its continuous efforts towards the Palestinian cause and the endeavor to stop the brutal war machine targeting civilians including women, innocent children, and hospitals in all forms of barbarism and savagery.
Safadi continued that the House of Representatives decided during its session yesterday to assign the legal committee to start framing the prosecution of the occupiers' leaders as war criminals before the International Criminal Court, just as the council tasked its legal committee to begin reviewing agreements with the usurping entity in a step consistent with the official and popular unified Jordanian stance towards the brothers in occupied Palestine.
Safadi confirmed the importance of the king’s speech and the warning messages he issued regarding the aggression on Gaza, which the world must take into consideration to prevent the conflict from expanding into a disaster whose flames will engulf the entire region, making it difficult to manage afterward.
He pointed out that the king emphasized the importance of the unity of Palestinian lands and supporting the legitimate authority, and that Gaza must not be separated from the rest of the Palestinian territories, and that the top priority today is to stop the war on Gaza and bring in sufficient aid.
He noted that King Abdullah II from the first day of the aggression called for stopping the war machine and achieving the just demands of the Palestinian people and establishing their independent state with East Jerusalem as its capital, and therefore warned that the world will pay the price of failure to resolve the Palestinian issue, appreciating in this context the royal efforts that contributed to changing the global public opinion, which had been following the occupier’s false narrative.
Safadi confirmed the rejection of all illusions of displacing the brothers, and reviewed the steps and decisions taken by the House of Representatives regarding the aggression on Gaza, noting that the council will coordinate with the government and our armed forces, the Arab Army, to work on increasing the number of field hospitals in Gaza and the West Bank, and we have demanded the government to provide all necessary means for treating and transporting the wounded and injured in the Jordanian health sector, expressing his thanks for the government’s response to the royal directives to transfer dozens of Gaza’s sons for treatment at the Hussein Cancer Center.
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