Amman – Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi and his US counterpart Anthony Blinken discussed efforts to reach an “immediate and permanent” ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday.
This came during a phone call that Safadi received from Blinken, according to a statement by the Jordanian Foreign Ministry, which reached Anadolu Agency.
The statement said that the two ministers discussed “efforts to reach an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza, and the negotiations being conducted by Egypt, Qatar and the United States to complete a prisoner exchange deal that would lead to stopping the war on Gaza.”
With the mediation of Qatar, Egypt, and the United States, which provides absolute support to Tel Aviv, the Palestinian factions in Gaza and Israel have been conducting indirect, faltering negotiations for months to reach an agreement to exchange prisoners and stop the war on Gaza.
During the call, the two ministers also discussed “the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza, the need to provide adequate and immediate aid, ensure its distribution throughout the Strip, and cooperate in achieving this.”
The statement quoted Safadi as stressing “the embodiment of a sovereign Palestinian state with occupied Jerusalem as its capital, on the June 1967 lines, to live in security and peace alongside Israel on the basis of the two-state solution (Palestinian and Israeli),” according to the same statement.
The Israeli war on Gaza, with full American support since October 7, has left more than 125,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, amid massive destruction and famine that has claimed the lives of dozens of children.
Tel Aviv continues this war, ignoring the UN Security Council resolutions to stop it immediately, and the International Court of Justice orders to end the invasion of Rafah (south), take measures to prevent acts of genocide, and improve the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza.
Regarding the situation in the occupied West Bank, the Jordanian minister warned of “Israel’s continued illegal measures there, which undermine the two-state solution, besiege the Palestinian economy, target the Palestinian National Authority and its institutions, and push the situation towards an explosion.”
Coinciding with the war on Gaza, the Israeli army and settlers escalated their attacks in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, resulting in the killing of 556 Palestinians, the injury of 5,300, and the arrest of 9,465, according to official Palestinian sources.
Safadi stressed the “necessity of making every possible effort to prevent the conflict from expanding to Lebanon, by activating international efforts that impose commitment to Resolution 1701,” noting that “stopping the aggression on Gaza is the basic step to protect the region from the danger of the conflict expanding.”
On August 11, 2006, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 1701, calling for a complete cessation of hostilities between Lebanon and Israel.
The resolution called for the creation of an area between the Blue Line (the border between Lebanon and Israel) and the Litani River in southern Lebanon, free of any armed men, military equipment, or weapons, except those belonging to the Lebanese Armed Forces and the UNIFIL forces.
Since October 8, 2023, Palestinian and Lebanese factions in Lebanon have been exchanging daily shelling with the Israeli army, resulting in hundreds of deaths and injuries, most of them on the Lebanese side.
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2024-07-05 08:07:10