Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said on Thursday that his country fears that the worst is yet to come in the Gaza war, stressing that the priority is to work to stop the war immediately because it will not achieve security or peace.
"We fear the worst and all indications are that the worst is coming," the minister told a news conference with his German counterpart Annalena Baerbock, adding that the war would have catastrophic repercussions, calling for the region to be protected from the risk of its expansion.
"Our priorities are to stop the war immediately because it will not achieve security or peace," Safadi said, adding that "things do not seem to be going towards calm."
Depriving innocent people of food and water and depriving patients of medicine is a "war crime", he said, stressing that "aid must be brought into Gaza immediately".
"We are making every effort to stop the war and prevent it from spreading, and we must act immediately to address the basis of the conflict," the Jordanian minister said, adding that "the catastrophe caused by the war will have serious and long consequences."
For her part, the German Foreign Minister said that the Middle East is going through difficult political conditions, adding that "there is no solution to the conflict except the two-state solution."
Jordanian-Egyptian warning
Baerbock is due to travel to Tel Aviv tomorrow, where she will hold talks with opposition politician Benny Gantz, who joined Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's war government, before concluding her tour with a visit to Lebanon.
Jordan's King Abdullah II and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi called today – during a summit in Cairo – to stop the war in Gaza, and warned of the expansion of the conflict to include the entire region.
In a joint statement issued at the end of the meeting, the two sides called for an immediate cessation of the Israeli war and affirmed their rejection of the policy of collective punishment of the Gaza Strip and the forced displacement of its population to Egypt or Jordan.
Abdullah II and al-Sisi also called for the protection of Palestinian civilians, the lifting of the siege and the delivery of humanitarian aid to the residents of the Strip.
He warned that "the non-cessation of the war, its expansion and the spread of its effects will move the region into a dangerous slide that threatens to cause the entry into the region with a catastrophe whose consequences are feared."
The meeting between Sisi and Abdullah took place two days before an international summit called by Egypt on Monday as part of a move to stop the ongoing Israeli war on Gaza, which has so far left about 3800,12 dead and more than <>,<> injured.