Amman – King Abdullah II of Jordan and UAE President Mohammed bin Zayed stressed on Sunday the importance of coordinating Arab efforts in light of the developments taking place in the region.
This came during a phone call that Abdullah II received from Bin Zayed, the day after Iran responded in retaliation with missiles and drones to an Israeli attack targeting the headquarters of its diplomatic mission in the Syrian capital, Damascus.
A statement published by the Jordanian Royal Court did not mention whether the two leaders discussed the Iranian military response during the phone call, but it said that they stressed “the importance of continuing to coordinate Arab efforts, especially in light of the developments taking place in the region.”
On Sunday, the Israeli army reported monitoring dozens of drones and ballistic and cruise missiles launched by Iran against Israeli cities, claiming that most of them were intercepted, and that a small number of them fell inside Israeli territory. This caused minor damage to a military base and a serious injury in the south of the country.
Meanwhile, Iranian official television claimed that half of the missiles launched “successfully” hit Israeli targets.
The Iranian response, which is the first of its kind that Tehran has implemented from its own territory and not through its allies, comes in retaliation after the consular section of the Iranian embassy in Damascus was exposed at the beginning of this April to an Israeli missile attack, which resulted in the killing of 7 members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, including prominent General Muhammad Reza. Ascetic.
Israel did not officially acknowledge the assassination of Zahedi, but it did not deny responsibility for the assassination either.
The call between King Abdullah II of Jordan and the Emirati president also discussed “efforts to reach an immediate and permanent ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, and to double humanitarian, medical and relief aid and deliver it to the people in the Strip by all possible means,” according to a statement by the Jordanian Royal Court.
Since last October 7, Israel has been waging a devastating war on Gaza, leaving more than 100,000 dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and massive destruction and famine that claimed the lives of children and the elderly, according to Palestinian and UN data.
Israel continues the war despite the issuance of an immediate ceasefire resolution by the Security Council, as well as despite its first appearance before the International Court of Justice on charges of committing “genocide.”
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2024-04-16 15:46:34