Amman, July 19 (Petra) — Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi and Egypt’s
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Emigration and Egyptian Expatriates Badr
Abdelatty condemned the Iranian attacks on Jordan and the Gulf
Cooperation Council (GCC) states and affirmed their full solidarity
in confronting them.

During a telephone call, the two ministers discussed efforts aimed at
halting the dangerous escalation in the region and stressed the need
to support those efforts to reach a comprehensive agreement that
addresses all sources of tension, ensures respect for the security
and sovereignty of states, and guarantees freedom of navigation
through the Strait of Hormuz in accordance with international law.

Safadi and Abdelatty also stressed the need for a ceasefire and the
resumption of negotiations as the path to resolving the crisis.

The ministers also discussed the situation in the Gaza Strip and the
occupied West Bank, stressing the need to implement all provisions of
U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan aimed at consolidating stability
in Gaza.

They warned that the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza was continuing
because of Israeli restrictions preventing the entry of sufficient
humanitarian aid and called for those restrictions to be lifted while
urging coordinated efforts to ensure that the humanitarian and
medical needs of the enclave’s residents are met.

Safadi and Abdelatty also condemned Israel’s illegal measures
entrenching the occupation in the occupied West Bank, saying the
actions constitute a flagrant violation of international law and
represent a dangerous escalation that threatens regional security and
stability.

The two ministers warned of the consequences of Israeli measures
aimed at changing the historic and legal status quo at Islamic and
Christian holy sites in occupied Jerusalem. They called for effective
international action to halt the measures, which they said both
countries reject as violations of international law and of Israel’s
legal obligations as the occupying power.

Safadi and Abdelatty reiterated that there is no alternative to a
two-state solution that ends the occupation and establishes an
independent Palestinian state on the pre-June 4, 1967 borders, with
occupied Jerusalem as its capital, in accordance with international
law, as the only path to achieving a just peace.

//Petra// AF