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Jordan says it won\u2019t sign energy and water exchange deal with Israel | Israel-Palestine conflict News<\/p>\n
Top diplomat says Amman\u2019s priority is to end \u2018Israel\u2019s barbarism in Gaza\u2019, which can no longer be seen as self-defence.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Jordan has said that it won\u2019t sign a deal to provide energy to Israel in exchange for water \u2013 an agreement that was planned to be ratified last month.<\/p>\n \u201cWe had a regional dialogue about regional projects. I think that all of this \u2026, the war [has] proven, [it] will not proceed,\u201d Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi told Al Jazeera on Thursday, referring to the\u00a0Israel-Hamas conflict.<\/p>\n \u201cWe will not sign this agreement any longer. Can you imagine a Jordanian minister sitting next to an Israeli minister to sign a water and electricity agreement, all while Israel continues to kill children in Gaza?\u201d asked the top diplomat of Jordan, which borders Israel to the east.<\/p>\n Jordan and Israel have held a fragile peace agreement since 1994, which returned some 380km (236 miles) of Jordan\u2019s occupied land from Israeli control and resolved long-standing water disputes.<\/p>\n \u201cWe [Jordan] signed the peace agreement in 1994 as part of a wider Arab effort to establish a two-state solution. That has not been achieved. Instead, Israel has not upheld its part of the agreement. So the peace deal will have to remain on the back burner gathering dust for now,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n All of Jordan\u2019s efforts were focused on ending what Safadi described as the \u201cretaliatory barbarism carried out by Israel\u201d in Gaza.<\/p>\n \u201cIsrael\u2019s aggression and crimes [in Gaza] can no longer be justified as self-defence. It has been killing innocent civilians and attacking hospitals,\u201d he told Al Jazeera.<\/p>\n \u201cIf any other state had committed a fraction of what Israel is doing now, we would have seen sanctions imposed on it from every corner of the globe,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n This month, Jordan announced it was \u201cimmediately\u201d recalling its ambassador to Israel in response to the war in Gaza, accusing Israel of creating an \u201cunprecedented humanitarian catastrophe\u201d.<\/p>\n Safadi said Jordan would never enter into a dialogue about who runs Gaza after the war, considering such a move now could be seen as a green light to Israel to do whatever it wants.<\/p>\n \u201cIf the international community wants to talk about this, it must stop the war now,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Jordan, like other Arab and Muslim countries, has strongly condemned Israel\u2019s bombardment of Gaza in which more than 11,600 people have been killed, including more than 4,700 children. Israel has also launched a ground offensive and restricted supplies of water, food and electricity to the enclave.<\/p>\n Safadi spoke as the head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, warned of a \u201cdeliberate attempt to strangle\u201d its operations in the Gaza Strip and said it risks shutting down all its humanitarian work because of a lack of fuel.<\/p>\n Israel\u00a0cut off fuel shipments\u00a0into the Gaza Strip as part of a \u201ccomplete siege\u201d on the area after Hamas fighters from Gaza launched an attack on southern Israel on October 7, killing about 1,200 people, according to Israeli authorities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u0627\u0644\u0645\u0635\u062f\u0631<\/a>
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