Published: 2024-05-09 20:29
Last Updated: 2024-10-26 04:34
Over the last few days, attempts were made to selectively quote Her Majesty Queen Rania from her recent interview with CBS News to stray away from the international outreach efforts carried out to shed light on the humanitarian atrocities committed in the Gaza Strip.
Several accusations and false claims were made by using select and brief snippets of the interview to show Her Majesty in bad light.
Numerous users took it to social media to defend Jordan's and Her Majesty’s unequivocal stance towards the Palestinian cause and the Hashemite custodianship of Jerusalem’s holy sites.
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Several Arab media outlets also defended Her Majesty and Jordan's position, and showcased attempts by malignant institutions and individuals to manipulate the content of the pro-Gaza and pro-Palestine interview.
In comments made to CBS’ Margaret Brennan on "Face the Nation” new program, Her Majesty stated that “there are clearly different standards…that humanitarian law is applied selectively…that our lives don’t matter.”
“Israelis are surprised when the word ‘genocide’ is used, because they cannot see Palestinians as anything but as a security threat,” Her Majesty said.
Her Majesty urged the international community to pressure “Israel” to end the war on Gaza, support a just solution to the Palestinian-”Israeli” conflict, and stop the collective punishment inflicted on the people of Gaza.
She added that when people speak out against the war on Gaza, they “speak against collective punishment, when you deprive people of food as a weapon of war, when an entire population is displaced, when there’s indiscriminate bombing.”
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Her Majesty also highlighted the dire humanitarian catastrophe Israel has created in Gaza, resulting in the death of almost 35,000 Palestinians, 75% of whom are women and children, as well as the displacement of 1.7 million Gazans and widespread hunger.
“Cities have turned to wasteland. Growing, happy children have been reduced to skin and bone. 2.3 million people in a small area have been going through hell every single day,” she said. She also mentioned reports from UNICEF that teenage girls in Gaza are wishing for death over life under such disastrous conditions, and that Gaza is now home to the world’s largest cohort of child amputees.
She also called on the international community to prevent Israel from committing a full-scale invasion of Rafah, describing it as “the end of the line” for Gazans, who have been “pushed systematically further and further south” since the start of the war.