Day: April 14, 2024

Amman: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Ayman Safadi emphasized on Sunday the critical importance of halting Israeli aggression against Gaza and initiating a comprehensive plan to end the Israeli occupation, advocating for a just peace based on the two-state solution as the means to curb the dangerous escalation gripping the region.

In a statement to the Jordan News Agency (Petra), Safadi underscored that quelling the escalation is not only a regional imperative but also a global necessity, calling upon the Security Council to fulfill its responsibilities in safeguarding security and peace. This includes enforcing a halt to the aggression against Gaza while upholding international law.

The minister also cautioned against the ramifications of sustained aggression, warning that it could propel the region towards further escalations, posing threats to both regional and international security and stability.

Furthermore, Safadi emphasized the urgency of consolidating interna
tional endeavors to de-escalate tensions and shield the entire region from its fallout.

Highlighting Jordan’s unwavering commitment, Safadi affirmed that the Kingdom will persist in its efforts to end the aggression against Gaza and quell regional escalation.

Additionally, Jordan pledges to collaborate with international partners to enact tangible measures toward implementing the two-state solution, recognized as the sole pathway to attain security, stability, and equitable peace in the region.

Safadi reaffirmed Jordan’s resolve to take all necessary measures to safeguard its security and sovereignty, unequivocally asserting that it will not permit any threat to compromise its safety or that of its citizens.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Jerusalem – Together – Today, Sunday, the occupation forces stormed the village of Al-Issawiya in the city of Jerusalem.

Eyewitnesses explained that the occupation forces, accompanied by intelligence personnel, stormed the village of Al-Issawiya and arrested a father to force his son to surrender himself.

The occupation forces deployed in some streets of Al-Issawiya during their storming.

Source: Maan News Agency

Jerusalem – Together – Today, Sunday, dozens of settlers carried out their raids on the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque.

130 settlers stormed Al-Aqsa, in successive groups, through the Mughrabi Gate, guarded by the occupation forces, led by rabbis, and they performed prayers during the storming of Al-Aqsa.

In recent days, groups and organizations called for the ‘alleged structure’ to carry out incursions into Al-Aqsa on Sunday, after a 16-day closure ‘from the middle of the month of Ramadan until the end of the Eid.’

Incursions into Al-Aqsa are carried out daily, ‘with the exception of Fridays, Saturdays, holidays, and religious occasions,’ through the Mughariba Gate, the keys of which have been controlled by the occupation authorities since the occupation of Jerusalem.

While the forces continue to station themselves at all gates of Al-Aqsa, and arrest those arriving there, especially young men and boys.

Source: Maan News Agency

Hebron – Ma’an – This evening, the occupation army placed cement cubes in the Al-Dhahr area in Yalda Beit Ummar, near the “Kermei Tzur” settlement, south of the town.

Awad explained that the isolation threatens about 1,500 occupation soldiers and restrictions on farmers to work on their lands planted with almonds and grapes.

Awad stated that the occupation army, while setting up the tents and while placing the cubes, the occupation soldiers randomly fired gas bombs towards the homes of the citizens, where a number of them suffered from suffocation and were treated in the field.

Source: Maan News Agency

Hebron – Together – The coordinator of the Popular and National Committees to Resist the Wall and Settlements in South Hebron, Ratib Al-Jabour, said that settlers set up residential tents near citizens’ homes in the Umm Tuba area in Musafer Yatta.

Al-Jabour added that this indicates the settlers’ intention to make the lives of citizens miserable and seize their lands, in preparation for expanding settlements in the region.

Al-Jabour said: ‘Today, settlers stole the water of the citizen Ibrahim Ali Awad from his well, and the settlers are treating everything in the area as their property, and we as Palestinians have no right to be on our lands and benefit from our property.’

Source: Maan News Agency

Ramallah – Ma’an – The number of people injured by Israeli occupation forces’ bullets during the confrontations that broke out this evening, Sunday, near the entrance to the Jalazoun camp, north of the city of Al-Bireh, rose to five.

The Ministry of Health stated in a brief statement that five citizens were injured by occupation bullets near the Jalazoun camp, including three whose injuries were described as serious.

Security sources reported to “Wafa” that the confrontations broke out after citizens attempted to confront an attack by colonists under the protection of the occupation forces on the home of citizen Jum’a Abu Hatem, near the separation and apartheid wall erected at the entrance to the camp.

Source: Maan News Agency