Jordanian FM blasts Israel for escalation in West Bank and region, says Amman will oppose any attempt at displacing Palestinians
Gianluca Pacchiani is the Arab affairs reporter for The Times of Israel
Following the recent escalation in the West Bank, Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi vows that Amman “will oppose any attempt to displace the Palestinian people inside or outside their occupied land with all our means.”
In a harsh post in Arabic on his X account, Safadi claims that “Israel’s reasons for launching its aggression on the West Bank are a lie” fabricated by its “racist extremist ministers to justify the killing of Palestinians and the destruction of their capabilities.”
“Israel’s occupation of Palestinian land, its crimes against the Palestinian people, and its escalation in the region are the greatest threat to security and peace,” Safadi adds.
On Thursday, Safadi published another strident tweet in English in which he chastised unnamed Israeli officials, describing them as “radicals who celebrate the killing of children, use starvation as weapon, bomb hospitals and schools, attack UN humanitarian missions, violate the sanctity of Muslim and Christian holy sites in occupied Jerusalem and deny the right of the Palestinian people to life,” and welcoming proposed EU sanctions against them.
The message came shortly after EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell indicated he would support EU sanctions on “some Israeli ministers that have been launching some hate messages” toward Palestinians. Though he did not name any ministers, reports said far-right ministers Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir could find themselves among those targeted.
