Amman – Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi and his German counterpart, Annalena Baerbock, discussed yesterday, Thursday, the escalation in the region and ways to end it.
This came during a phone call between them, according to a statement by the Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, seen by Anadolu.
The statement said that the two ministers discussed “the dangerous escalation taking place in the region,” and stressed “the necessity of ending it.”
Al-Safadi warned of “the danger of escalation that pushes the region towards the abyss of a comprehensive regional war, which will not end unless the Israeli aggression against Gaza and Lebanon ends.”
He reiterated “the necessity of stopping the Israeli aggression against Lebanon immediately, and providing immediate and sufficient humanitarian aid to Lebanon.”
Al-Safadi stressed “support for Lebanon, its security, stability and sovereignty.”
The Lebanese Ministry of Health announced, on Thursday evening, that the death toll from the ongoing Israeli aggression against Lebanon since October 8, 2023 had risen to 2,169 dead and 10,212 wounded.
Since last September 23, Israel has expanded the scope of the genocide it has been committing in Gaza since October 7, 2023, to include most of Lebanon’s regions, including the capital, Beirut, through air raids of unprecedented violence and intensity. It also began a ground incursion into its south, ignoring international warnings. And UN resolutions.
These raids, as of Thursday evening, resulted in 1,351 dead and 3,811 wounded, including a large number of women and children, and more than 1.2 million displaced people, according to Anatolia’s monitoring of official Lebanese data.
Al-Safadi warned against “escalatory Israeli measures in the occupied West Bank, which constitute a clear violation of international law and undermine the chances of achieving just and comprehensive peace in the region,” according to the same source.
He stressed “the need to join efforts to reach an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza, end the unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe that the Strip is witnessing, ensure the adequate and sustainable delivery of humanitarian and relief aid to all parts of the Strip, and protect civilians.”
Al-Safadi stressed that “a just peace that guarantees the rights of the Palestinian people, first and foremost their right to freedom and an independent, sovereign state with occupied Jerusalem as its capital on the lines of June 4, 1967, is the basis of the two-state solution and the only way to guarantee security and stability in the region.”
In parallel with the genocidal war in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army and settlers escalated their attacks in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, which led to the death of 749 Palestinians, the injury of about 6,250, and the arrest of more than 11,100, according to official Palestinian data.
With American support, the war of extermination in Gaza resulted in more than 139,000 Palestinian deaths and injuries, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing people, amid massive destruction and famine that killed dozens of children and the elderly, in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world.
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