Jordan’s foreign minister said that Israel cannot achieve military victory in Gaza and has already suffered a strategic defeat by alienating the entire region, RT reported.
Speaking on Sunday at the Doha Forum – an annual gathering of diplomats in the Qatari capital – Jodan’s FM Ayman Safadi said the goal of Israel’s operation against the Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas is to oust the Palestinian population rather than to defeat the group.
The destruction in Gaza over the past two months “is an indication of an Israeli policy that seems determined to expel the residents” of the enclave.
He added that top Israeli officials, including Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir and Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, have been quite candid about that intention.
KAN: The Israeli army is examining a proposal for the post-war period in Gaza, whereby it would incur from time to time to carry out specific incursions into areas of the Gaza Strip, similar to its operations in the West Bank.
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Safadi brought up the Friday vote at the UN Security Council, in which the US vetoed a proposal by Arab nations urging for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza. It was the only vote against, with the UK, a key American ally, being the only member of the 15-strong body to abstain.
The top Jordanian diplomat noted that despite the veto, Washington was publicly calling on Israel to change its military tactics.
“Simply put, Israel is defying everyone – its allies, international law, and the United Nations,” he said.
“Israel has created an amount of hatred that will haunt this region, and that will define future generations. It harms its people as much as it affects everyone in the region.”
The minister blamed Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories and systematic obstruction to the creation of a Palestinian state as the root cause of the hostilities.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who attended the event in Qatar via video link, remarked that the US has blocked several proposals for a ceasefire in Gaza at the UN.
Scores of Palestinians were killed and wounded in new Israeli strikes targeting various areas of the besieged Gaza Strip.
The Al-Aqsa Hospital alone announced that it received at least 40 Palestinians killed by Israeli airstrikes in the last 24 hours, as a result of Israel’s… pic.twitter.com/BLYuT7SAkn— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) December 11, 2023
He called the unresolved status of Palestinian statehood the “single most dangerous factor igniting extremism in the Middle East.”
According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 17,997 Palestinians have been killed and 49,229 in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7. Palestinian and international estimates say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.
(RT, PC)
Israel isn’t trying to beat Hamas. It’s an engineered situation. Israel is a master of lies and deception. Israel wants to make Gaza uninhabitable and be rid of it altogether. That’s what it is doing right now while Hamas and Hezbollah increase in membership.