Jordan’s Queen Rania has renewed her call for an end to hostilities in Gaza, insisting that Israel has had “one October 7” while the Palestinians have had 156.
The 53-year-old royal, born to Palestinian parents, made the comments about a CNN interview yesterday.
She also called for an end to the war, saying that as “traumatic as October 7 was” for Israel, the country is not given the right to “commit atrocity after atrocity.”
The Jordanian queen openly admitted that not only Hamas ‘hates’ the Israelis, but also normal Palestinians.
She said: ‘Palestinians don’t hate Israelis because of who they are, they hate them because of what they do to them.’
Queen Rania said: ‘Palestinians don’t hate Israelis because of who they are, they hate them because of what they do to them.’
The October 7 attack on the music festival in Israel sparked the current conflict in Gaza
In the interview, she told CNN interviewer Christiane Amanpour: “As devastating and traumatic as October 7 was, it does not give Israel license to commit atrocity after atrocity. Israel has experienced one October 7th, since then the Palestinians have experienced 156 October 7ths.”
Referring to recent calls for Israel to increase aid to Palestine, namely by Joe Biden in his State of the Union address last week, the Jordanian Queen said: “Bombing aid does not stop the destruction, death and heartbreak.
‘We cannot save people from hunger just by bombing them to death.
“There can be no victories as long as this war continues.”
The queen blamed Israel for the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and said Israel is responsible for cutting off the people of Gaza from basic needs such as food, fuel and water.
She also said that Israel has made the people of Gaza completely dependent on outside aid efforts. They continue to bomb and attack the people of Gaza while they starve.
She says the famine of the people of Gaza is an Israeli-made disaster, arguing that it is “privation by design.”
She went on to talk about October 7 and that this was not the start of the conflict.
She said: ‘We cannot save people from hunger just by bombing them to death.’
The Jordanian queen was born in Kuwait to Palestinian parents before moving to Jordan
She said: ‘I think a lot of people need to know more about this conflict to really understand the intricacies of it, to understand that this is one of the greatest historical injustices, to understand what the root cause of this problem is, to understand that this conflict did not start on October 7, that it was the result of years of occupation, of settlement expansion, of human rights violations, of disregard for international law, and this is what has led us to this point.”
The Anti Defamation League, a body that focuses on anti-Semitism, responded to the interview on .
“In no way is Israel’s war against Hamas – a vicious terrorist organization that uses human shields – equal to the unprecedented brutal massacre of October 7.
“Especially during the month of Ramadan, we hope that Jordan will play a constructive role in de-escalating tensions.”
30,000 Palestinians have been killed since the October 7 attack and she says Israel has no right to do so
This is not the first time Queen Rania has used a CNN interview to voice her support for Palestine.
Last October, she used an interview to launch a remarkable attack on the West, criticizing US support for Israel’s retaliatory actions against Hamas and claiming there was a “double standard” in global sympathy for the victims of the war.
She said she “of course” condemned the murder of innocent Israelis by Hamas, but questioned why Israel’s self-defense did not come under the same level of global scrutiny and reserved all her sympathy for the Palestinians.
