AMMAN: Jordan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates denounced on Saturday Israel’s announcement of a tender to build over 1,000 new units in Jewish settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.
Jordan News Agency cited the ministry’s official spokesman Sinan Majali as saying settlement activities are “a flagrant and gross violation of the international law and United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334.”
The entire settlement policy undermines efforts to achieve peace and the chances of a two-state solution based on international resolutions, he stressed.
The Jordanian official emphasized that unilateral moves by Israel, the occupying power, including the expansion of settlements, confiscation of land and eviction of Palestinians, are illegal and unacceptable actions that are in serious violation of international humanitarian law.
Israel’s far-right government authorized construction bids for 1,029 new homes in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
The authorization came a week after Israelis and Palestinians met in Egypt in a bid to calm rising tensions ahead of Ramadan.
The anti-settlement Israeli group Peace Now publicized the bids on Friday, saying that they constituted “yet another harmful and unnecessary construction initiative.”
Jordan condemns new Israeli settlement construction
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Jordan condemns new Israeli settlement construction
- Foreign Affairs Ministry’s spokesman Sinan Majali says settlement activities are ‘flagrant and gross violation of international law’
- Entire settlement policy undermines efforts to achieve peace, Majali says
US launches new retaliatory strikes against Daesh in Syria after deadly ambush
- CENTCOM said operation ordered by President Donald Trump
- Launched in response to the deadly Dec. 13 Daesh attack in Palmyra
WASHINGTON: The US has launched another round of retaliatory strikes against the Daesh in Syria following last month’s ambush that killed two US soldiers and one American civilian interpreter in the country.
The large-scale strikes, conducted by the US alongside partner forces, occurred around 12:30 p.m. ET, according to US Central Command. The strikes hit multiple Daesh targets across Syria.
Saturday’s strikes are part of a broader operation that is part of President Donald Trump’s response to the deadly Daesh attack that killed Sgt. Edgar Brian Torres-Tovar, Sgt. William Nathaniel Howard, and Ayad Mansoor Sakat, the civilian interpreter, in Palmyra last month.
“Our message remains strong: if you harm our warfighters, we will find you and kill you anywhere in the world, no matter how hard you try to evade justice,” US Central Command said in a statement Saturday.
A day earlier, Syrian officials said their security forces had arrested the military leader of Daesh’s operations in the Levant.
The US military said Saturday’s strikes were carried out alongside partner forces without specifying which forces had taken part.
The Trump administration is calling the response to the Palmyra attacks Operation Hawkeye Strike. Both Torres-Tovar and Howard were members of the Iowa National Guard.
It launched Dec. 19 with another large-scale strike that hit 70 targets across central Syria that had Daesh infrastructure and weapons.
The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces has for years been the US’s main partner in the fight against Daesh in Syria, but since the ouster of former Syrian President Bashar Assad in December 2024, Washington has increasingly been coordinating with the central government in Damascus.
Syria recently joined the global coalition against Daesh.
