Jordan's Foreign Minister says Netanyahu should not be allowed to drag the region into a wider war

(Patria) - Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi stated that it is unacceptable for the international community to allow Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to drag the Middle East into a wider regional war, Reuters reported.

In statements carried by state media, Safadi was quoted as telling his French counterpart Catherine Colonna during a phone call that the danger of the war spreading "is growing day by day" with Israel continuing to cause "death and destruction in Gaza".

He added that Netanyahu's right-wing nationalist ruling coalition government has sought to involve the West directly in a regional war that would only "condemn the region to more conflict and destruction".

"Israel's aggression on Gaza has crossed all human, legal, and moral boundaries," Safadi said, adding that there is no longer an excuse to prevent the UN Security Council from adopting a binding resolution to end the war. He said the UN Security Council's failure so far to impose a ceasefire "reflects double standards and selective application of international law".

Safadi said that Jordan and France stood against the mass displacement of Palestinians outside of Gaza and agreed that Israel should allow many of the 2.3 million residents of the enclave, which it has now squeezed into the south near the Egyptian border after they fled northern Gaza, to return home.