13/9/2024–|Last update: 9/13/202412:41 AM (Makkah Time)
The State of Qatar condemned the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s storming of the Palestinian Jordan Valley, and warned of its repercussions on the ongoing efforts to reach a ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip.
The Qatari Foreign Ministry considered the storming in a statement as “a dangerous escalation and an extension of provocative policies aimed at expanding settlements and a blatant violation of international legitimacy resolutions, especially Security Council Resolution No. 2334.”
She warned of the impact of these ongoing attacks on the ongoing efforts to reach a ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip, and stressed the need for the international community to assume its responsibilities to compel the Israeli occupation authorities to stop their blatant violations of international humanitarian law and to compel them to respect international conventions.
The ministry reiterated the State of Qatar’s firm position on the justice of the Palestinian cause and the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, including the establishment of their independent state on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital, according to the statement.
On Wednesday, Netanyahu visited the border area with Jordan, accompanied by Israeli army commanders, and announced his intention to build a wall on the border with Jordan to prevent what he claimed were attempts to smuggle weapons and fighters from the kingdom to the West Bank and Israel, reviving a project that was previously proposed about 20 years ago.
Netanyahu’s visit came after the operation carried out by Jordanian Maher Al-Jazi last Sunday, in which three Israelis working as employees at the Allenby Crossing (King Hussein Bridge as it is called in Jordan and Al-Karameh Crossing as it is called on the Palestinian side) were killed.
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry said in a statement that it condemns the provocative incursion committed by Netanyahu into the Jordan Valley under flimsy pretexts and excuses that will not be able to hide the colonial settlement dimension of the occupation’s plans aimed at swallowing up the Jordan Valley and emptying it of its original owners.
She considered that this “represents a translation of the official Israeli incitement practiced by Netanyahu and his team from the right and the extreme right on the path to exploding the situation in the occupied West Bank, through escalating the aggression against our people, with the ongoing crimes it causes.”
In parallel with its war on Gaza, the Israeli army expanded its operations and the settlers escalated their attacks in the West Bank, resulting in 703 martyrs, more than 5,000 wounded, and more than 10,000 arrested, according to official Palestinian institutions.
The Israeli war on Gaza resulted in more than 136,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, in addition to massive destruction and an unprecedented humanitarian disaster.