Day: 17 November 2023

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Ayman Safadi received a phone call from his Moroccan counterpart Nasser Bourita.

The two top diplomats discussed a wide range of issues including developments in Gaza, attempts to put an end to the bloody conflict on the Strip, war crimes committed by Israel, its persistent transgressions of international humanitarian law and other legal norms, and its attacks on people and property belonging to civilians.

In response to the attack on the area around the Jordanian field hospital in Gaza, Bourita voiced his country’s solidarity with Jordan.

Source: Jordan News Agency

The tragic death toll continues to mount as Israeli occupation forces intensify their airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, leaving a number of Palestinians dead and many others injured. The latest airstrikes targeted displaced individuals east of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, leaving many casualties.

The Israeli occupation military also bombed various areas in northern Gaza, focusing its recent attacks on the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City. The strikes resulted in casualties and extensive damage to civilian infrastructure.

Israeli airstrikes, accompanied by indiscriminate artillery shelling, were reported in the neighborhoods of Tuffah, Shujaeya, and Yafa Street in Gaza City. Additionally, Israeli artillery targeted the Nuzha neighborhood in Jabalia, north of Gaza.

Yesterday evening, a new massacre unfolded in Jabalia refugee camp, where at least 18 civilians were killed and several others were injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting residential buildings. The victims included members of the Abu Al-
Qumsan, Masoud, Al-Assali, Al-Tululi, Abu Dan, and Abu Dayr families.

Videos from the scene documented citizens and rescue teams attempting to retrieve the bodies of the deceased and rescue those trapped under the rubble of destroyed homes.

Later, an Israeli airstrike targeted the Falouja neighborhood in Jabalia, resulting in the murder of three more civilians.

With all hospitals in Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip out of service due to the dire conditions at the Baptist Hospital and the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia, the situation has become increasingly critical. Tank incursions by Israeli occupation forces around the Jordanian Field Hospital have also added to the challenges faced by medical teams.

Gaza has also been cut off from the outside world, with a complete disruption of landline and mobile telecommunications and internet services. The Israeli blockade, the depletion of fuel necessary to operate key network components, and the ongoing massacres across the Gaza Strip have contributed to
the isolation and deteriorating humanitarian crisis in the region.

Since the beginning of the continuous Israeli aggression on Gaza on October 7, nearly 11,500 Palestinians, including over 4,700 children and 3,155 women, have been killed, with nearly 29,000 others wounded.

Source: Palestine news and Information Agency – WAFA – English

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) revealed that about 830,000 displaced people are currently staying in 154 facilities affiliated with the agency in all governorates of the Gaza Strip, including the north.

The agency added that approximately 1.6 million people throughout the Gaza Strip have been displaced since October 7.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Secretary General of Amnesty International, Agnès Callamard, described the displacement of Gazans as “a war crime.”

“The situation in the Gaza Strip is unprecedented and is marked by a high death toll that has surpassed 12,000 people; a child dies there every ten minutes,” Callamard said during a Friday interview with France 24.

She said that “This crisis is characterized by the use of famine, water, and medicine as weapons of war. It is a matter of collective punishment against the people of Gaza.”

Source: Jordan News Agency

The World Health Organization (WHO) confirmed on Friday that health care facilities in the occupied West Bank have faced more than 170 Israeli attacks since Oct. 7.

“WHO is concerned about the continued escalation of attacks on health care in the West Bank,” the UN agency said in a statement on X.

“Health care is not a target,” the WHO stressed, referring to international rules of war barring hospitals, schools, and other civilian facilities from being attacked.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Ayman Safadi received, yesterday, a phone call from US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

Blinken emphasized that his nation is concerned about the injuries that seven Jordanian field hospital personnel suffered in Gaza as a result of Israeli bombing, and that both medical personnel and civilians need to be protected.

Blinken also stressed the importance of the role played by Jordan in delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza.

He affirmed his country’s commitment to achieving lasting peace based on the establishment of a Palestinian state in accordance with the two-state solution.

The two ministers discussed efforts to bring sufficient and sustainable humanitarian aid into Gaza, including fuel, water, food and medicine, and to empower the staff of international organizations in Gaza.

Safadi pointed out that Israel continues to prevent the entry of humanitarian aid in clear violation of international law.

Safadi stressed the need to stop t
he war and the killing and destruction it caused immediately, and warned of its disastrous humanitarian, security and political repercussions.

He emphasized that Israel must abide by international legitimacy resolutions and stop breaking the international law, citing UN Security Council Resolution No. 2712 as the most recent example, which the Council adopted on Wednesday, November 15, 2023.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Spain strongly condemned the strike that targeted the vicinity of the Jordanian field hospital in Gaza, wounding seven personnel working at the facility.

The Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced in a statement today Madrid’s solidarity with the Jordanian government and with the injured.

It stressed that it is necessary to respect international humanitarian law, especially those related to health sector workers, while performing their duty in dealing with innocent civilians.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Jordanians rallied in downtown Amman after Friday prayer in a solidarity march with the Palestinians amid the Israeli crimes against them in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank in front of the Al-Husseini Mosque in downtown Amman.

Marchers shouted anti-Israel slogans, criticizing Israel’s brutal treatment of the Palestinian people and declaring that Jordan, its king, people, and government support them in their struggle against the Israeli occupation’s brutal aggression until the Palestinian people’s hopes of establishing an independent state with East Jerusalem as its capital.

Other demonstration took place in different part of Amman including in front of Al-Kalouti Mosque.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Ayman Safadi will take part in the 19th edition of the Manama Dialogue.

Safadi will speak tomorrow in a panel session entitled “War, Diplomacy, and De-escalation.”

During the Bahrain-hosted conference, which is organized by the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), Safadi will meet a number of his counterparts as well as senior officials participating in the event.

Source: Jordan News Agency

The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza said on Thursday that at least 11,675 people have been killed in Gaza and the West Bank by attacks since October 7.

Some 4,707 children, 3,155 women and 686 elderly are among the dead, while 32,000 were injured, the ministry added.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Canadian Foreign Minister Mélanie Joly voiced concern over the injuries sustained by Jordanians employed in the medical field in an attack that happened close to the Jordanian field hospital in Gaza.

“Jordan plays a vital humanitarian role through its medical support for Palestinian civilians,” she said on X, formerly known as Twitter.

In accordance with international humanitarian law, Joly urged all parties to take the utmost caution when near medical institutions and civilian infrastructure, stressing that hospitals and medical personnel are not targets and should be safeguarded.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Israeli occupation forces killed two Palestinians, on Friday, at the northern entrance to the city of Hebron, West Bank, WAFA News Agency reported.

The two young men were being driven by a vehicle when Israeli occupation soldiers opened fire on them early in the morning at the northern entrance to Hebron.

The two were declared dead from their wounds a short while after emergency medical professionals from the Palestinian Red Crescent were first denied entry to the area.

The bodies of the two martyrs were taken away by the Israeli occupation forces.

Source: Jordan News Agency

The tragic death toll continues to mount as Israeli occupation forces intensify their airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, leaving a number of Palestinians dead and many others injured. The latest airstrikes targeted displaced individuals east of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, leaving many casualties.

The Israeli occupation military also bombed various areas in northern Gaza, focusing its recent attacks on the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood in Gaza City. The strikes resulted in casualties and extensive damage to civilian infrastructure.

Israeli airstrikes, accompanied by indiscriminate artillery shelling, were reported in the neighborhoods of Tuffah, Shujaeya, and Yafa Street in Gaza City. Additionally, Israeli artillery targeted the Nuzha neighborhood in Jabalia, north of Gaza.

Yesterday evening, a new massacre unfolded in Jabalia refugee camp, where at least 18 civilians were killed and several others were injured in an Israeli airstrike targeting residential buildings. The victims included members of the Abu Al-
Qumsan, Masoud, Al-Assali, Al-Tululi, Abu Dan, and Abu Dayr families.

Videos from the scene documented citizens and rescue teams attempting to retrieve the bodies of the deceased and rescue those trapped under the rubble of destroyed homes.

Later, an Israeli airstrike targeted the Falouja neighborhood in Jabalia, resulting in the murder of three more civilians.

With all hospitals in Gaza City and the northern Gaza Strip out of service due to the dire conditions at the Baptist Hospital and the Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia, the situation has become increasingly critical. Tank incursions by Israeli occupation forces around the Jordanian Field Hospital have also added to the challenges faced by medical teams.

Gaza has also been cut off from the outside world, with a complete disruption of landline and mobile telecommunications and internet services. The Israeli blockade, the depletion of fuel necessary to operate key network components, and the ongoing massacres across the Gaza Strip have contributed to
the isolation and deteriorating humanitarian crisis in the region.

Since the beginning of the continuous Israeli aggression on Gaza on October 7, nearly 11,500 Palestinians, including over 4,700 children and 3,155 women, have been killed, with nearly 29,000 others wounded.

Source: Palestine news and Information Agency – WAFA – English