{"id":50694,"date":"2024-04-09T14:36:40","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T04:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=50694"},"modified":"2024-04-09T14:36:40","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T04:36:40","slug":"france-egypt-jordan-leaders-warn-israel-against-rafah-assault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=50694","title":{"rendered":"France, Egypt, Jordan leaders warn Israel against Rafah assault"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The leaders of France, Egypt and Jordan warned Israel on Monday against a threatened offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, urging an &#8220;immediate&#8221; ceasefire in its war on Hamas.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We warn against the dangerous consequences of an Israeli offensive on Rafah, where more than 1.5 million Palestinian civilians have sought refuge,&#8221; they said in a joint editorial published in several newspapers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Such an offensive will only bring more death and suffering, heighten the risks and consequences of mass forcible displacement of the people of Gaza and threaten regional escalation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The editorial was signed by France&#8217;s President Emmanuel Macron, Egypt&#8217;s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Jordan&#8217;s King Abdullah II.<\/p>\n<p>The United States said earlier it opposes any assault on Rafah, after Israel&#8217;s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said a date for an attack had been set.<\/p>\n<p>The three leaders urged that a UN Security Council resolution calling for an &#8220;immediate ceasefire&#8230; be fully implemented without further delay&#8221; and that all hostages held by Hamas be released, also in line with the council&#8217;s demands.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The war in Gaza and the catastrophic humanitarian suffering it is causing must end now,&#8221; the three leaders said in the op-ed published by Le Monde in France, the Washington Post in the United States, Al Rai in Jordan and Al Ahram in Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>They called for a &#8220;massive increase&#8221; in aid being allowed into Gaza.<br \/>\nIsrael is under growing international pressure to agree to a ceasefire, including from its top ally and arms supplier the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The leaders of France, Egypt and Jordan warned Israel on Monday against a threatened offensive in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, urging an &#8220;immediate&#8221; ceasefire in its war on Hamas. &#8220;We warn against the dangerous consequences of an Israeli offensive on Rafah, where more than 1.5 million Palestinian civilians have sought refuge,&#8221; they said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1089],"class_list":["post-50694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-france-egypt-jordan-leaders-warn-israel-against-rafah-assault"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}