Jordan queen: Israel shelling entire families

October 25, 2023 11:30

A Palestinian man grieves over deaths. Mohammed Salem/Reuters

Jordan's Queen Rania has lashed out at the "glaring double standard" of the Western mainstream media in the ongoing Israel-Hamas war, for failing to condemn civilian deaths in Tel Aviv's bombardment of Gaza as the conflict threatens to destabilise relations between the United States and Arab leaders, CNN reported.

"The people all around the Middle East, including in Jordan, we are just shocked and disappointed by the world's reaction to this catastrophe that is unfolding. In the last couple of weeks, we have seen a glaring double standard in the world," Queen Rania said on Amanpour & Co, in a video interview from the Jordanian capital, Amman.

The Jordanian royal said that when "October 7 happened" the world "immediately and unequivocally" supported Israel and its right to defend itself but in the last couple of weeks, "we're seeing silence in the world." The 53-year-old queen who has for long been a vocal advocate for the rights of Palestinian people said that it was "for the first time in modern history that there is such human suffering and the world is not even calling for a ceasefire." Queen Rania said there was a feeling that the Western world is "complicit" in the mass death of civilians.

"Are we being told that it is wrong to kill a family, an entire family, at gunpoint, but it's OK to shell them to death? I mean, there is a glaring double standard here," Queen Rania told CNN. "It is just shocking to the Arab world," she said.

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