Jordan Times
Sunday, March 9, 2008
Jordan condemns attacks
against civilians
AMMAN, March 9 (JT) - Jordan condemns and refuses any attacks targeting
civilians regardless of their nationalities, a government official said on
Friday.
Commenting on Thursday's Palestinian attack in West Jerusalem, Minister of State
for Media Affairs and Communications Nasser Judeh said the act is not different
from the condemned recent Israeli onslaught against innocent civilians in Gaza,
where dozens of women, children and elderly people were killed.
A Palestinian gunman opened fire in a Jewish religious school, killing at least
eight people and wounding about 10 in the most lethal attack in Israel in two
years.
He said in a statement carried by the Jordan News Agency, Petra, that such
attacks impede the Middle East peace process and fuel the cycle of violence and
counterviolence.
Rejection of attacks targeting civilians is a constant in Jordan's policy as is
its call for an immediate lift of the Israel-imposed siege on the Palestinians
in Gaza, Judeh said.
Judeh warned against wasting the peace opportunity at hand, and urged support
for the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations, which, he said, should lead to the
establishment of an independent and viable Palestinian state on the Palestinian
soil in the West Bank and Gaza under the two-state solution.