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Jordan’s foreign minister says Israel aiming ‘to empty Gaza of its people’

A displaced Palestinian family that fled Khan Younis sets up camp in Rafah in southern Gaza near the border with Egypt [File: Mohammed Abed/AFP]

Jordan and the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees have accused Israel of aiming to cleanse Gaza of its people through an “indiscriminate and brutal offensive” in response to the October 7 Hamas attack.

Speaking at the Doha Forum held in the Qatari capital on Sunday, Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said Israel was implementing a policy of pushing the Palestinians out of Gaza through a war that he said meets the “legal definition of genocide”.

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