AMMAN — Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign
Affairs and Expatriates Ayman Safadi strongly condemned the inhumane Israeli
attack on mourners during the funeral of Al-Jazeera Journalist’s Shireen Abu
Akleh on Friday, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported.
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Safadi, who is
currently in Washington DC, stressed that such attack requires a global
alertness to halt the Israeli aggressive behavior and provides protection for
the brotherly Palestinian people.
In an interview
with Al-Jazeera, Safadi offered condolences to the network and relatives of Abu
Akleh, stressing that all signs and eyewitnesses indicate that the veteran
reporter was assassinated by a bullet fired by one of the Israeli occupation
soldiers.
Safadi stressed
that the assassination of Abu Akleh, the killing of scores of Palestinians, and
what is happening in Jerusalem are dangerous indicators that call for a real
international move to stop this escalation and revive a real peace process that
leads us towards a just and comprehensive peace.
Responding to a
question, Safadi said, “Israel bears the responsibility for what happened, by
continuing to assert the occupation, by continuing to close the prospects for
finding a just and comprehensive peace, which will not be achieved if the
Palestinians do not obtain their right to a decent life in their independent,
sovereign state with occupied Jerusalem as its capital, on pre-1967 borders.”
Safadi said,
“There can’t be security with the occupation, and no peace with the
continuation of the occupation. Occupation and peace are two opposites that
cannot meet.”
He warned of
what is happening in the occupied Palestinian territories and described it as
“dangerous”, adding that, “what is happening cannot continue and that there
must be a real movement towards ending the occupation, towards protecting the
Palestinian people, towards achieving a just and comprehensive peace that meets
all the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people.”
Safadi went on
to say that Israel does not enjoy sovereignty over Al- Aqsa Mosque, according
to international law and the UN Security Council resolution 476, adopted on
June 30, 1980, which declared that “all legislative and administrative measures
and actions taken by Israel, the occupying power, which purport to alter the
character and status of the Holy City of Jerusalem have no legal validity and
constitute a flagrant violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention.”
In response to a
question on the US position on the Palestinian cause, Safadi said, “we are
constantly talking with the United States. There is an important development in
the US position compared to the positions of the previous administration, where
the current administration supports the two-state solution, the need to stop
settlements, and respect the historical status quo in Jerusalem and its
sanctities.”
President Joe Biden
stressed his support for the two-state solution, the need to respect the
historical status quo of the holy sites and the centrality of the Hashemite
custodianship over the holy sites, Safadi noted.
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