Jordanian Foreign Minister says Israel is committing genocide and wants to expel Palestinians from Gaza

(Patria) - Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said on Sunday that Israel is pursuing a policy of expelling Palestinians from Gaza through a war that he said meets the "legal definition of genocide", allegations that Israel has dismissed as "outrageous", Al Arabiya reported.

Safadi, whose country borders the West Bank and absorbed most Palestinians after Israel's creation in 1948, also said Israel had created hatred that will haunt the region and define generations to come.

"What we are seeing in Gaza is not just the simple killing of innocent people and the destruction of their livelihoods, but a systematic effort to empty Gaza of its people," Safadi told a conference in Doha.

"We have not yet seen the world come to the place where we should be...an unambiguous call for an end to this war; a war that is within the legal definition of genocide."

Asked to respond, Israeli government spokesperson Eylon Levy said: "These are, of course, outrageous and false accusations."

"Israel is fighting to defend itself against monsters who committed a massacre on October 7, and the purpose of our campaign is to bring those monsters to justice and ensure they can never again hurt our people," he added.

Safadi claimed that Israel's goal of destroying Hamas is challenged by the scale of destruction among civilians in Gaza, which he described as indiscriminate.

Safadi also said that significant differences emerged in talks between a delegation of Arab ministers and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Washington last Friday regarding the U.S. administration's military support for Israel and its refusal to call for a ceasefire.