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Jordan: Israel 'killing all prospects' for peace in West Asia

Iran Press TV

Wednesday, 20 August 2025 4:46 PM

Jordan says Israel is "killing all prospects" for peace in West Asia, as the regime has approved a plan to occupy Gaza City.

Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said Israel's war on the Gaza Strip has caused "massacres and starvation."

At a meeting with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow on Wednesday, Safadi said he hoped to discuss "efforts to end the aggression on Gaza, and the massacres and starvation that it is creating."

This was in addition to the "illegal measures that continue to undermine the two-state solution and kill all prospects for peace in the region," he added.

Elsewhere in his remarks, the Jordanian minister praised Moscow's "clear position" against the war and its "demand for reaching a permanent ceasefire."

Israel's minister of military affairs, Israel Katz, recently approved a plan to occupy Gaza City, the largest city in the Palestinian territory.

The Israeli military on Wednesday said it would call up 60,000 reservists in the coming weeks and lengthen the term of an additional 20,000 reservists as it pushes forward with the plan to occupy the city.

An Israeli military official told journalists that the initial stages of the plan have already begun in the neighborhoods of Zeitoun and Jabalia.

The announcement came in defiance of warnings from human rights groups that a humanitarian crisis could worsen in the strip, where most residents have been displaced multiple times, neighborhoods lie in ruins, and people are facing the threat of famine.

Israel's plan to escalate its assault also defies renewed mediation efforts led by Qatar and Egypt.

Hamas has agreed to the latest proposal: a 60-day ceasefire that would include the return of half of the captives held in Gaza in exchange for Israel releasing a number of Palestinian prisoners.

The latest proposal also includes a path to a comprehensive deal that ends the nearly two-year genocidal war in Gaza.

While Qatar said the proposal was nearly identical to the one put forward by US special envoy Steve Witkoff and was accepted by Israel, mediators were still awaiting a response from the Israeli regime to the plan.

Egypt said "the ball is now in its (Israel's) court," while senior Hamas official Mahmoud Mardawi said his movement "opened the door wide to the possibility of reaching an agreement, but the question remains whether [Israel's prime minister Benjamin] Netanyahu will once again close it, as he has done in the past."

In July, Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya condemned Israel and the United States for withdrawing from negotiations aimed at reaching a ceasefire in Gaza despite "clear progress" that had been made in the talks.

Hayya said the United States and Israel were "wasting time" to intentionally hinder talks and facilitate the continued extermination of the Palestinians in Gaza.

Israel has killed more than 62,100 Palestinians and injured at least 156,700 others since October 2023, according to the health ministry of Gaza.

Since March 2, when the regime violated its ceasefire agreement with Hamas, Israel has sealed all border crossings, blocking the entry of humanitarian aid and further deepening Gaza's already dire humanitarian crisis.