“Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi has decided to immediately recall the Jordanian ambassador to Israel,” the Jordanian Foreign Ministry said.
In a statement, the ministry condemned “Israel’s ongoing war, which is killing innocent people in Gaza and causing an unprecedented humanitarian disaster.”
The armed conflict began after Hamas militants invaded Israel from the Gaza Strip on October 7 and killed about 1,400 people, mostly civilians.
The Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced on Wednesday that the Israeli army has killed 8,796 people in the Gaza Strip since October 7, including 3,648 children.
Jordan had previously recalled its ambassador to Israel in 2019.
As Israel expanded its operations in the Gaza Strip and sent ground troops there on Friday, Safadi warned it would lead to “a humanitarian disaster of epic proportions for years to come”.
In 1994, Jordan became the second Arab country to sign a peace treaty with Israel. Egypt was the first to do it in 1979. More than two million Palestinian refugees live in Jordan.
Israel “regrets the Jordanian government’s decision to recall its ambassador,” a spokesman for the Israeli Foreign Ministry said.
2023-11-01 22:56:00
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