The spokesperson welcomed the statements of a number of Israeli officials who condemned the attacks, stressing the need to take measures to prevent their recurrence.
Jordan condemned on Saturday the settler attacks on a European diplomatic delegation that included the Belgian Consul General and French and Polish diplomats, as well as Palestinian farmers during their olive harvest, representatives of the Catholic Church, and journalists, in the town of Taybeh east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, holding Israel, the occupying power, responsible for these assaults.
The official spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Ambassador Fouad Al-Majali, affirmed the Kingdom's absolute rejection and condemnation of the terrorist settler attacks, which he said are an extension of the extremist Israeli government's policy, coincide with the continuation of illegal Israeli measures in the occupied West Bank, fuel extremism and violence against the Palestinian people, and undermine the chances of achieving peace based on the two-state solution.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot demanded on Saturday that Israeli authorities arrest those responsible for the attack and bring them to justice, describing the assault on a French mayor as "appalling."
Barrot said that Bernard Baudoux, 78, the mayor of Aulnoye-Aymeries in northern France, was violently attacked by extremist settlers in the occupied West Bank, adding that Paris is in contact with him.
