Jordan’s Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Ayman Safadi, said on Sunday that unless the root cause of the dangerous escalation in the region is removed, it will explode into wider and more catastrophic confrontations.

“The brutal Israeli aggression on Gaza is pushing the region towards the abyss of a regional war, and stopping this aggression immediately would defuse the escalating crisis”, Safadi said in his official X account.

He stressed that Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is obstructing the prisoner exchange agreement and attempting to push the region into a regional war in order to save his political future and implement his racist ideology. He said this objective was pursued through mass killings, destruction, and war crimes in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

If the international community wants to stop the escalation, Safadi said it must enforce an end to the aggression on Gaza and impose sanctions on Israel.