Arab nations condemn Israel’s Gaza assault during UN debate

Ayman Hussein Abdullah Al-Safadi, Jordan’s foreign minister, lambasted the language used by Israel saying ‘the Israeli government … called for wiping out Palestinians of the face of this Earth’. Photograph: Eduardo Muñoz/Getty

Arab nations have linked hands with the Global South to challenge Israel and its western backers to end the bombing in a Gaza at the start of a rare two-day emergency debate at the UN general assembly.

In a fierce warning on Thursday the Iranian foreign minister said that if what he described as the genocide did not stop the US would “not be spared from this fire”.