Jordan Denounces Israel's Aggressions Against PalestiniansJordan on Saturday denounced Israel's military actions against the Palestinians during the past three days as "criminal aggressions" and called for intervention from the U.S. and European Union (EU) to end the violence.Jordan follows the Israeli aggressions with deep concern and calls on the U.S., the EU and world community to intervene rapidly and firmly to end the military operations by the Israeli forces against the unarmed Palestinians, the Jordanian government said in a statement. The Israeli acts in the West Bank are a "serious development and a criminal and horrible aggression against the Palestinians, which have no justification and should be ended immediately," the statement said. Jordan, which currently holds the rotating presidency of the Arab League summit , has been engaged in intensive consultations with Arab countries to help end the Israeli bloody aggressions against the Palestinians, it added. Israeli forces reportedly killed 19 Palestinians during the past three days since Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Ze'evi was killed on Wednesday by Palestinian gunmen in Jerusalem. Some 900 people have been killed and thousands of others injured, most of them Palestinians, since the Israeli-Palestinian violence broke out in September last year. Jordan, which signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1994, has been trying to help end the confrontations and bring them back to negotiations on the basis of the relevant U.N. resolutions and signed agreements between the two sides. |
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