Stop The War Crime In Gaza Says Jordan’s King Abdullah

Arab leaders at a peace summit which was held in Cairo last Saturday, have condemned Israeli bombardment of Gaza.

Speaking at the summit, Jordan’s King Abdullah II denounced what he termed the global silence about Israel’s attacks, which have killed more than 5,000 thousand Palestinians, including 2,055 children and 1,119 women, in Gaza and made over a million homeless.

Urging an even-handed approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict while citing bias, King Abdullah II says the message being communicated to the Arab world is that Palestinian lives matter less than Israeli lives, and Arab lives matter less than other lives. He also said the ongoing crisis indicates that the application of international law is optional and that human rights also have bounderies which stop at borders, races and religions.

King Abdullah added that this message is, in his own words, ‘very, very dangerous, as the consequences of continued international apathy and inaction will be catastrophic—on us all.’

He called for three things; firstly, an immediate end to the war on Gaza, the protection of civilians and the adoption of a unified position that indiscriminately condems the targettign of all civilians in line with shared values and international law, which he says, loses all value if implemented selectively.

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King Abdullah II also called for the sustained and uninterrupted delivery of humanitarian aid, fuel, food and medicines to the Gaza strip.

Thirdly, labelling it as a red line for all concerned, he called for the unequivocal rejection of the forced displacement or internal displacement of the Palestinians. This, he added, is a war crime according to international law.

Calling the Israeli action a war crime, he labelled the sustained bombardment by Israerl as the collective punishment of a besieged and helpless people, in flagrant violation of international humanitarian law.

King Abdullah also added that if the conflict is not stopped immediately, it would lead to more bloodshed in what he called ‘a zero-sum game of death and destruction, of hatred and hopelessness played on repeat.’