Jordan announced that it will host – tomorrow, Saturday – a meeting between US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and his Saudi, Qatari, Emirati and Egyptian counterparts, with the participation of Palestinian officials.
According to a statement by the Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the foreign ministers of Jordan, the Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Egypt and the Secretary of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization will hold a “joint meeting with US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken” to discuss ways to stop the war in the Gaza Strip.
For his part, the official spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriate Affairs, Ambassador Sufyan Al-Qudah, explained that Arab officials will hold a coordination meeting in the context of their efforts aimed at stopping the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip and the humanitarian catastrophe it is causing, according to the Jordanian News Agency (Petra).
Ambassador Al-Qudah also indicated that during the meeting, Arab officials will confirm the Arab position calling for an immediate ceasefire, and the immediate and urgent delivery of humanitarian aid to the Strip, and will discuss with Blinken all the repercussions and “ways to end this dangerous deterioration that threatens the security of the entire region.”
Blinken arrived – on Friday evening – to Amman, after visiting Tel Aviv, as part of his second tour in the region since the start of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood launched by the Palestinian resistance led by the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas).
On Wednesday, Jordan recalled its ambassador to Israel, denouncing “the raging Israeli war on Gaza that is killing innocent people and causing an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe.” It also informed Israel not to return its ambassador, who had previously left the kingdom.
The Gaza Strip’s population of about 2.3 million people lives in a catastrophic humanitarian situation under the violent Israeli bombardment, which led to the death of about 9,500 Palestinians, most of them children and women, and the wounding of about 23,000 others, in addition to more than 2,000 deceased.
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2023-11-03 20:44:22
