Jordan’s king rejects any Israeli plan to occupy parts of Gaza.

According to state media on Monday, Jordan’s King Abdullah opposed any Israeli intentions to establish security zones or occupy portions of Gaza, citing Israel’s denial of the Palestinian people’s “legitimate rights” as the primary cause of the situation.

The monarch was cited as saying to senior leaders at the royal palace that there could be “no military or security solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian problem.

He added that Israel should not divide the war-torn enclave of Gaza from the other Palestinian territories.

“The occupation of Palestinian territories and Israel’s denial of Palestinians’ legitimate rights were the root of the crisis,” the monarch told the parliamentarians.

“The solution starts from there, and any other path is doomed to failure and more of a cycle of violence and destruction,” he stated.

According to Abdullah, he has long warned that Jewish settler attacks on Palestinian people may “expand the conflict and push the region “to the abyss” due to Israeli transgressions in the West Bank, with which Jordan shares a border.

Many Palestinian refugees and their descendants live in Jordan. They are afraid that Israel may drive them out of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where settler assaults by Israeli forces against Palestinian residents have increased since Hamas’s onslaught on southern Israel on October 7.

This month, Abdullah stated that fresh talks over an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel were the only way to achieve lasting peace.

Negotiations for a “two-state solution” involving Palestinian independence in Israeli-occupied areas, mediated by the United States, have been on hold for over ten years.