(MENAFN- Jordan News Agency)
Amman, June 20 (Petra) - Deputy Prime
Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Ayman Safadi, urged the international community to act immediately to stop the war crimes committed by Israel against the Palestinian people and lift its inhumanitarian blockade of Gaza to protect the Palestinian people from massacres and famine, and to protect international law and the humanitarian values that Israel has violated because of its continued immunisation from accountability and impunity.
During a phone call on Thursday with the High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy of the European Union, Josep Borrell, Safadi stressed that the war crimes documented by many UN reports, proved that Israel has become a pariah state that used starvation as a weapon, killed civilians indiscriminately, and the United Nations included it in the "blacklist" of parties that committed serious violations against children, but the international reaction to these crimes remains without the required deterrence to curb the radicalisation of the Israeli government and stop the massacres it commits.
Safadi warned of the danger of continuing to immunise Israel against international law on international peace and security, and to the credibility of international law that Israel violates in Gaza and the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem, without regard.
Safadi said that Israel bears full responsibility for depriving the Palestinian people in Gaza of food, medicine and other basic humanitarian needs, and for the catastrophic decline in the volume of aid entering Gaza, and for the ability of UN organisations to distribute it and the collapse of order in it.
Safadi added that Israel is the occupying power that launches a barbaric aggression against Gaza, and it is responsible for all the ongoing starvation and violation of the rights of the Palestinian people, the collapse of public order, and the death of children, men and women, by killing, starving and illing.
Safadi called on the European Union to take clear positions consistent with its values and international law, and approve deterrent punitive measures against Israel to pressure it to respect international law and its agreements with the European Union and to immediately stop its aggression against Gaza.
Safadi also warned that Israel is pushing the occupied West Bank towards an explosion, by besieging the Palestinian economy, its aggression against Palestinian cities, villages and camps, enabling settler terrorisation, expanding settlements and confiscating land.
All these illegal actions violate international humanitarian law and the laws and values of the European Union and require comprehensive European action to stop them, Safadi said.
Safadi warned of real possibilities of explosion of the situation in the occupied West Bank, and the expansion of the conflict regionally, which threatens regional and international security and the interests of Europe as well.
Safadi and Borrell discussed efforts to reach an exchange deal leading to a permanent ceasefire, and stressed the need for the parties to agree on US President Joe Biden's initiative in this context as a way to achieve this, and affirmed their support for the efforts of Egypt, Qatar and the United States to reach an exchange deal.
Safadi said that the European Union has a key historical role in efforts to achieve peace and stability in the region, and that Jordan will continue to work with it to stop the aggression on Gaza and the inhumane blockade that prevents the entry of humanitarian aid to it, and prevents its distribution, and to stop the illegal Israeli measures that undermine the two-state solution and kill the chances of achieving a just and lasting peace.
Safadi and Borrell said that there is no alternative to a two-state solution in accordance with international law and United Nations resolutions as a way to achieve a just and lasting peace, and discussed joint efforts to achieve this.
During the call, Safadi and Borrell also discussed the Jordanian-European partnership relations and the preparations for the partnership council to be held next month, and emphasised the keenness to develop these relations in various fields.
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