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This picture taken on November 1, 2023 from a position along the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel shows smoke plumes billowing during Israeli bombardment amid ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement. Photo: Jack Guez/AFP
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ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iraq late Wednesday expressed support for neighboring Jordan’s decision to recall its ambassador to Israel in protest of the war on Gaza which has killed over 8,700 people.
Jordan’s foreign ministry on Wednesday “decided to immediately recall Jordan’s ambassador to Israel” in protest with “the ongoing Israeli war that is killing innocent people in Gaza and calling an unprecedented humanitarian crisis,” it said in a statement.
The war against Gaza “is causing a humanitarian catastrophe that’ll haunt generations to come & [and] is threatening regional security,” Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said in an X statement.
Israel’s relentless pounding of the Gaza Strip has killed 8,720 people, including 3,648 children, according to the health ministry, in the 27th day of the war after Hamas militants crossed the Gaza border into Israel and killed around 1,400 people, according to Israeli figures.
Iraq’s foreign ministry said that it “supports the principled position taken by the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to withdraw its ambassador from the Israeli entity and its request to stop the attacks on Gaza and the Palestinian people.”
On Monday, Iraq’s top military spokesperson said that Baghdad was preparing to send a second aid package of mostly medical equipment to the besieged Gaza Strip in coordination with Egyptian authorities.
The war in Gaza has sparked sympathy across the Arab world where the Palestinian cause has widespread support.
At a peace summit in Egypt last week, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani blasted the global failure to support human rights and justice in the conflict. “Palestine stands as a living testament for this recurring failure,” he said.
Jordan, whose population includes over two million Palestinian refugees, established diplomatic ties with Israel in 1994, becoming the second Arab state to do so after Egypt in 1979.
Jordan’s foreign ministry on Wednesday “decided to immediately recall Jordan’s ambassador to Israel” in protest with “the ongoing Israeli war that is killing innocent people in Gaza and calling an unprecedented humanitarian crisis,” it said in a statement.
The war against Gaza “is causing a humanitarian catastrophe that’ll haunt generations to come & [and] is threatening regional security,” Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said in an X statement.
Israel’s relentless pounding of the Gaza Strip has killed 8,720 people, including 3,648 children, according to the health ministry, in the 27th day of the war after Hamas militants crossed the Gaza border into Israel and killed around 1,400 people, according to Israeli figures.
Iraq’s foreign ministry said that it “supports the principled position taken by the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to withdraw its ambassador from the Israeli entity and its request to stop the attacks on Gaza and the Palestinian people.”
On Monday, Iraq’s top military spokesperson said that Baghdad was preparing to send a second aid package of mostly medical equipment to the besieged Gaza Strip in coordination with Egyptian authorities.
The war in Gaza has sparked sympathy across the Arab world where the Palestinian cause has widespread support.
At a peace summit in Egypt last week, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani blasted the global failure to support human rights and justice in the conflict. “Palestine stands as a living testament for this recurring failure,” he said.
Jordan, whose population includes over two million Palestinian refugees, established diplomatic ties with Israel in 1994, becoming the second Arab state to do so after Egypt in 1979.
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