(18 Feb 2025)
JORDAN UN ENVOY MEETING
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Amman, Jordan – 18 February 2025
1. U.N. interim Mideast envoy and coordinator for humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, Sigrid Kaag meeting with Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi
2. Sigrid listening
3. Safadi talking
4. Various of meeting
STORYLINE:
The interim U.N. Mideast envoy and coordinator for humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, Sigrid Kaag discussed the ceasefire in the besieged Palestinian territory with Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi on Tuesday.
Kaag met with Safadi during a visit to Amman where they discussed the ceasefire that paused more than 15 months of fighting in Gaza between Israel and Hamas, according to a statement by Jordan’s Foreign Ministry.
They also discussed the humanitarian conditions in the Gaza Strip and the delivery of sufficient amounts of aid to all parts of the territory.
Over 2 million Palestinians in Gaza face their own uncertainty as Israel’s government appears to embrace U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal to relocate them from the war-ravaged territory. Trump has said they would not return.
Egypt has postponed an emergency Arab summit to counter Trump’s proposal to remove the Palestinian population from the Gaza Strip and take over the territory.
Egypt’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday that the summit would be held in Cairo on March 4 allow for further "logistical and objective preparations."
The summit, which had been scheduled for Feb. 27, came after Trump’s proposal sent shockwaves across the region.
Palestinians and Arab countries have universally rejected any displacement of the territory’s population.
Israel has welcomed the proposal, which human rights groups say could amount to forced displacement in violation of international law.
Trump has suggested the Palestinians could be resettled in Egypt and Jordan, both of which have vehemently rejected the idea.
Egypt has said the proposal could undermine its nearly half-century peace treaty with Israel.
Egypt is working on a counter-plan to redevelop Gaza with the Palestinians still in it.
But first, there’s the question of whether the war will resume in early March when the ceasefire’s initial phase ends.
Qatar said Tuesday that mediators were working to advance the second phrase of the ceasefire, as the first phrase ends in two weeks.
Hamas-led militants in their Oct. 7 attack killed some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducted around 250.
More than half of the hostages have been returned and eight have been rescued in military operations.
Israel’s air and ground war has killed over 48,000 Palestinians, more than half of them women and children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, which does not say how many were combatants.
AP video shot by Omar Akour
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