Jordan’s foreign minister Ayman Safadi issued a strongly worded statement for Israel and its allies, warning that Israel is “driving the entire region towards greater conflict” and must be contained, Al Jazeera reports.

He told the official Petra news agency that Tel Aviv is “attempting to open new fronts and draw the West into them in order to extend the Israeli prime minister’s political career and carry out the radical racist agenda of radical ministers in the Israeli government”.

Safadi cautioned that the international community is at a crossroads and needs to choose whether to make efforts to stop the Israeli aggression or “allow the Israeli prime minister and the ministers of radicalism, hatred and racism in his government to drag the region into a regional conflict that could endanger global peace and security”.