Jordanian Senate Committee expresses full support for King’s defence of Palestinians, peace efforts

AMMAN — The Senate’s Foreign Affairs Committee affirmed its “unlimited and unequivocal” support of the principles declared by His Majesty King Abdullah during the Cairo Peace Summit on October 21, 2023.

In a statement to The Jordan Times, the Committee underlined its full backing of His Majesty’s intensive political efforts, since the beginning of the Israeli unjustified and brutal attack on the Gaza district, to alert the international community to the scale of the catastrophic atrocities the innocent Gaza population have been subjected to by the Israeli occupying entity, and to urge world powers to support an immediate ceasefire to protect the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank from the relentless Israeli barbaric genocide, in order to pave the way for a political settlement that guarantees Palestinian People’s right to self determination within an independent Palestinian state on the 1967 lines with East Jerusalem as its capital, within the long overdue objective of a final and a comprehensive just peace for the benefit of entire region.

The lack of this comprehensive solution is the root cause of the problem and this has been articulated and called for by His Majesty for many years throughout the whole world, the statement read. 

The committee also confirms its strong support for the statements of HRH Crown Prince Hussein regarding this critical crisis as well as the pronouncements of Her Majesty Queen Rania in her two Interviews with the CNN where she objectively, clearly and sincerely exposed  the profound sentiments of the Jordanian people and indeed the entire human community towards the most oppressive and cruel atrocities committed by  the Israeli occupation towards the Palestinian people while the international community watches with deadly and deafening silence and shocking indifference.

The committee also regrets the death of any innocent civilian, the statement added. 

The Committee also appreciates and supports the Foreign Ministry’s  continued endeavour to realise His Majesty’s vision for ending the occupation and laying the appropriate and the legitimate foundations for a real regional peace; and it also supports the credible performance of the Interior Ministry, the Jordanian Armed Forces-Arab Army and the various Jordanian security agencies in protecting public peace; protecting the country and the Jordanian people,  in such troubled times, as well as wisely managing the massive demonstrations and expressions of Jordanian peoples’ support for their brothers in Palestine, and their rejection of the compounded injustice and vicious harm they have been subjected to for decades.