Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi has said that Israel has turned into a “rogue” state with its “assassination” of the Hamas political leader and needs to be stopped, AFP reports.
He said the killing of Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’s lead negotiator in efforts for a truce and hostage release deal for Gaza, was a clear sign that Israel had decided to undermine the US-backed talks.
“Yesterday, Israel assassinated Ismail Haniyeh. He was the one who was negotiating the exchange deal. So how on earth is a country that wants to conclude a deal, killing the main interlocutor in those negotiations?” Safadi told a news conference.
“So when Netanyahu decided and sent his missiles to assassinate Haniyeh in Iran in violation of the sovereignty of another country and bringing escalation to a very high level, is that somebody who wants the deal to work?
“And all the work that has been done by Egypt, Qatar, and the US to bring a deal that would have brought a ceasefire, that would have released the hostages, that would have released prisoners, Israel decided to undermine all that”.
Safadi demanded action by the international community to rein Israel in.“The [UN] Security Council must not allow a state that has turned rogue to impose more wars and more destruction on the region. “