Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi and his American counterpart, Anthony Blinken, discussed on Wednesday efforts to reach an “immediate and permanent” ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.

This came during a phone call that Al-Safadi received from Blinken, according to a statement by the Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The statement said that the two ministers discussed “efforts to reach an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza, and the negotiations carried out by Egypt, Qatar and the United States to complete an exchange deal that leads to stopping the war on Gaza.”

With the mediation of Qatar, Egypt, and the United States, which provides absolute support to Tel Aviv, the Palestinian factions in Gaza and Israel have been conducting faltering indirect negotiations for months, to reach an agreement to exchange prisoners and stop the war on Gaza.

During the call, the two ministers also discussed "the catastrophic humanitarian situation in Gaza, the necessity of introducing aid adequately and immediately, ensuring its distribution throughout the Strip, and cooperating in achieving this."

The statement quoted Al-Safadi as emphasizing “the embodiment of a sovereign Palestinian state with occupied Jerusalem as its capital, along the lines of June 1967, to live in security and peace alongside Israel on the basis of the two-state solution (Palestinian and Israeli),” according to the same statement.

Israel's war on Gaza, with absolute American support since last October 7, has left more than 125,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, amid massive destruction and famine that claimed the lives of dozens of children.

Tel Aviv continues this war, ignoring the UN Security Council resolutions to stop it immediately, and the orders of the International Court of Justice to end the invasion of Rafah (south), and to take measures to prevent acts of genocide and improve the miserable humanitarian situation in Gaza.

Regarding the situation in the occupied West Bank, the Jordanian minister warned of “Israel’s continuation of its illegal measures there, which undermine the two-state solution, besiege the Palestinian economy, target the Palestinian National Authority and its institutions, and push the situation toward an explosion.”

In conjunction with the war on Gaza, the army and Israeli settlers escalated their attacks in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, resulting in the killing of 556 Palestinians, the injury of 5,300, and the arrest of 9,465, according to official Palestinian authorities.

Al-Safadi stressed "the need to make every possible effort to prevent the conflict from expanding to Lebanon, by activating international efforts that impose adherence to Resolution 1701," noting that "stopping the aggression against Gaza is the basic step to protect the region from the danger of expanding the conflict."

On August 11, 2006, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution No. 1701, which calls for a complete cessation of hostilities between Lebanon and Israel.

The resolution called for the creation of an area between the Blue Line (separating Lebanon and Israel) and the Litani River in southern Lebanon, free of any militants, military equipment and weapons, except those belonging to the Lebanese Armed Forces and UNIFIL forces.