Israel only wants wars, no end game: Jordanian Minister on Middle East tensions

Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said that Israel has no “end game” and only wants wars in response to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “we are surrounded by enemies” remark. Safadi’s comments come amid dramatically escalating tensions between Israel and Hezbollah.

Safadi’s comments came after Israel bombarded Lebanon’s Beirut, with the Jewish nation’s military saying it had targeted Hezbollah’s central headquarters in the southern suburbs of the capital.

“We are here, members of the Muslim-Arab committee, mandated by 57 Muslim-Arab countries. I can tell you here very unequivocally, all of us are willing to, right now, guarantee the security of Israel in the context of Israel ending the occupation and allowing for the emergence of a Palestinian state, an independent state,” Safadi said.

Holding Netanyahu responsible for the country’s brutal aggression against Lebanon and its continued attack, Safadi said the Israeli PM is continuing to rely on violence as he doesn’t want a “two-state solution”.

“Can you ask Israeli officials what is their end game other than wars and wars and wars…do they have a narrative other than ‘I’m going to continue to go to war and kill this and kill that.’ It took 30 years to convince people that peace is possible, but this Israeli government killed it. The amount of dehumanisation, hatred will take generations to navigate,” he added.

Safadi also said that he holds Israel responsible for the “catastrophic consequences of its brutal aggression against Lebanon” amid escalating tensions between the Jewish nation and Hezbollah.

Israel continues to launch airstrikes on what it says are Hezbollah targets in Lebanon. Israeli airstrikes on Sunday killed over 100 people and injured 359 others. The airstrikes have destroyed homes and have displaced thousands of people. A video shared by India Today reporter Ashraf Wani from Lebanon showed hundreds of Lebanese people trying to cross the border to Syria in search of safer pastures as Israeli airstrikes continued to wreak havoc.

“We hold Israel fully responsible for the catastrophic consequences of its aggression on Lebanon, which it is launching brutally without any legal or humanitarian deterrent, while it continues its aggression on Gaza and its dangerous escalation in the West Bank. We stand in solidarity with Lebanon and its brotherly people as they confront this aggression and heal their wounds, and we affirm our support for it and for its sovereignty, security, stability, cohesion, and peace,” Safadi said on X.

Ayman Safadi’s statement came amid the news of the death of several top Hezbollah leaders, including Hassan Nasrallah. Israel has claimed to have eliminated several top commanders of Hezbollah even as it continues its bombardment to target the militant group’s military infrastructure.

Notably, at least four people were killed after an Israeli airstrike hit a building in Lebanon’s Beirut in the early hours of Monday. This is the first time since the escalation of the conflict that Israel has attacked a residential area in Beirut’s Kola district. India Today TV’s Ashraf Wani reported that Israeli drones have been carrying out attacks in the suburbs of Beirut since Sunday evening.

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