Jordan’s foreign minister yesterday expressed doubts that Israel would be able to achieve its goal of wiping out Hamas with heavy shelling and an invasion of the Gaza Strip, long controlled by the Palestinian movement.
“Israel says it wants to wipe out Hamas. We have a lot of military personnel here, but we just can’t understand how this objective can be achieved,” Ayman Safadi said at the annual IISS Manama meeting in Bahrain. He spoke at the Dialogue and Security Conference.
Israel has vowed to wipe out Hamas after it carried out cross-border raids on neighboring Israeli communities in the first week of October. Israel has taken control of the northern part of the enclave and has bombed much of Gaza City, reducing it to rubble as it ramps up attacks on Hamas in the south.
Regional power Saudi Arabia called for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas at the conference. “Every day we see civilians dying. And we need to end it today, not tomorrow,” said Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan. Hamas has vowed a long and sustained fight against Israel.
Brett McGuirk, US President Joe Biden’s top adviser for Middle East affairs, told the Manama conference that the release of hostages held by Hamas would lead to a surge in the provision of humanitarian aid and a significant pause in fighting in Gaza.
Former Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki al-Faisal said years of failure to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict led to the current crisis.
“We must…consider that war is also a manifestation of the political and diplomatic failure of the international community. We are all failing to solve this problem,” he said. Told. “And we all have a responsibility to find a solution.” Israel’s air raids on Gaza have raised questions between global and regional powers and the United Nations over who will govern the populated area when the conflict ends. .
European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has said that the Palestinian Authority (PA), the Western-backed organization that exercises limited autonomy in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, will be the only one to do so after the end of the Israel-Hamas war. He said he could run Gaza.
“Hamas can no longer control Gaza,” Borrell told the Manama Dialogue, an annual conference on foreign and security policy. “Then who is going to govern Gaza? I think the only one that can do that is the Palestinian Authority.”Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has argued that a complete political solution that would include the West Bank (1967 He said the Palestinian Authority could play a role in governing Gaza if there was a move toward establishing a Palestinian state on land occupied by Israel since 2017.
Peace talks between Israel and Palestine have been frozen since 2014.
A senior official from the United Arab Emirates, which reached a US-brokered normalization deal with Israel in 2020, warned that a prolonged conflict in Gaza could lead to radicalization across the Middle East.
“I think we need to be very cautious because the longer the crisis lasts, the greater the risk of it getting out of control,” said Anwar Gargash, a foreign affairs adviser to the UAE president.
“Israel says it wants to wipe out Hamas. We have a lot of military personnel here, but we just can’t understand how this objective can be achieved,” Ayman Safadi said at the annual IISS Manama meeting in Bahrain. He spoke at the Dialogue and Security Conference.
Israel has vowed to wipe out Hamas after it carried out cross-border raids on neighboring Israeli communities in the first week of October. Israel has taken control of the northern part of the enclave and has bombed much of Gaza City, reducing it to rubble as it ramps up attacks on Hamas in the south.
Regional power Saudi Arabia called for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas at the conference. “Every day we see civilians dying. And we need to end it today, not tomorrow,” said Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan. Hamas has vowed a long and sustained fight against Israel.
Brett McGuirk, US President Joe Biden’s top adviser for Middle East affairs, told the Manama conference that the release of hostages held by Hamas would lead to a surge in the provision of humanitarian aid and a significant pause in fighting in Gaza.
Former Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki al-Faisal said years of failure to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict led to the current crisis.
“We must…consider that war is also a manifestation of the political and diplomatic failure of the international community. We are all failing to solve this problem,” he said. Told. “And we all have a responsibility to find a solution.” Israel’s air raids on Gaza have raised questions between global and regional powers and the United Nations over who will govern the populated area when the conflict ends. .
European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has said that the Palestinian Authority (PA), the Western-backed organization that exercises limited autonomy in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, will be the only one to do so after the end of the Israel-Hamas war. He said he could run Gaza.
“Hamas can no longer control Gaza,” Borrell told the Manama Dialogue, an annual conference on foreign and security policy. “Then who is going to govern Gaza? I think the only one that can do that is the Palestinian Authority.”Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has argued that a complete political solution that would include the West Bank (1967 He said the Palestinian Authority could play a role in governing Gaza if there was a move toward establishing a Palestinian state on land occupied by Israel since 2017.
Peace talks between Israel and Palestine have been frozen since 2014.
A senior official from the United Arab Emirates, which reached a US-brokered normalization deal with Israel in 2020, warned that a prolonged conflict in Gaza could lead to radicalization across the Middle East.
“I think we need to be very cautious because the longer the crisis lasts, the greater the risk of it getting out of control,” said Anwar Gargash, a foreign affairs adviser to the UAE president.