AMMAN, April 24, 2025 (WAFA) – Jordan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Ayman Safadi Thursday affirmed that blocking aid into Gaza resulted in a humanitarian disaster.
Speaking during a meeting with his Hungarian counterpart Péter Szijjártó in Amman, Safadi stressed the need for Israel, the occupying power, to halt the aggression on the Gaza Strip and allow unimpeded access for humanitarian assistance and aid to the Strip.
He reiterated that the establishment of a just peace was its strategic choice and the real guarantee for the security of the region.
Israel has maintained an eight-week blockade on food, medicine, and aid entering Gaza, while continuing aerial attacks on homes and tent shelters, with the impact on civilians described as "very serious" by UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric.
On Wednesday, the foreign ministers of Britain, France and Germany urged Israel to comply with international law and permit unrestricted humanitarian aid into Gaza.
In a joint statement, the ministers stressed: “Humanitarian aid must never be used as a political tool and Palestinian territory must not be reduced nor subjected to any demographic change.”
Israel unilaterally ended the Gaza ceasefire agreement and resumed its aggression on the Strip on Tuesday, March 18, carrying out a wave of bloody airstrikes across the Strip and killing hundreds of Palestinians, including over 100 children.
The death toll reached at least 1,928 with over 5,055 others wounded, according to medical sources. Emergency teams are attempting to recover victims still trapped beneath the rubble.
Since the dawn hours of Thursday, Israeli airstrikes have killed 52 civilians, including 39 in Gaza City and the northern Strip.
The aggression was resumed amidst concerns over the deterioration of the humanitarian situation in the Strip given the ongoing siege and ban on the entry of medical and humanitarian aid.
Israel has waged a military onslaught on the Strip since October 2023, killing 51,355 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injuring 117,248 others.
Moreover, at least 10,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.
The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.
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