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Jordan condemns ‘savage’ Israeli attack in Jabalia camp
Jordan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has condemned what it has labelled as a “savage” Israeli attack on the Jabalia refugee camp.
As we have been reporting, the Israeli military has destroyed at least 10 residential buildings in the Jabalia camp in recent hours, killing and injuring at least 150 people, according to initial estimates.
The Jordanian Foreign Ministry called the attack a “flagrant violation of international law and international humanitarian law, a continuation of the systematic brutal targeting of civilians, and a horrific war crime for which those responsible must be held accountable”, according to the state-run Jordan News Agency.
“Israel continues to commit war crimes and ethnic cleansing, and it doesn’t care about the international will calling for an end to the war and the unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe it is causing,” said Sufyan Qudah, the ministry’s official spokesperson.
Israel must stop ‘ethnic cleansing’
Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi has called for pressure on Israel to end “ethnic cleansing”, in strong remarks as he met US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in London.
Deploring the humanitarian situation in northern Gaza, Safadi told Blinken: “We do see ethnic cleansing taking place, and that has got to stop.”
Blinken said there is an urgency to get to a diplomatic resolution in the ongoing conflict in Lebanon between the Israeli forces and the Hezbollah group.
International tolerance of Israeli slaughter in Gaza has ‘normalised’ attacks on civilians
Save the Children’s Alexandra Saieh, head of humanitarian policy and advocacy, told Al Jazeera that the situation for children in Gaza is now “absolutely catastrophic”.
Reports from Save the Children’s staff on the ground in Gaza recount instances of children who have lost limbs to explosions being treated only with basic pain relief because they have no other medical supplies to treat their wounds, Saieh said.
“No military goal could justify the mass-scale slaughter of civilians that we see in Gaza now every single day,” she said.
“The international community has normalised attacks on schools in Gaza. We are seeing Israeli forces attack schools-turned-shelters in Gaza now on a regular basis. And by the international community refusing to take action, they’ve just normalised this,” Saieh added.
“The situation in Gaza is now more desperate than it ever has been.”
Wounded Palestinian children at al-Awda Hospital following an Israeli attack on a school sheltering displaced people in the Nuseirat refugee camp in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, on Thursday
‘Darkest moment’ of war unfolding in northern Gaza
UN rights chief Volker Turk said the “darkest moment” of the conflict in Gaza was unfolding in the north of the territory, warning that Israel’s actions could amount to “atrocity crimes”.
“Unimaginably, the situation is getting worse by the day. The Israeli government’s policies and practices in northern Gaza risk emptying the area of all Palestinians. We are facing what could amount to atrocity crimes, including potentially extending to crimes against humanity,” Turk said in a statement.
