AMMAN (AFP) – Jordan's King Abdullah II told Middle East peace Quartet envoy Tony Blair on Saturday that the world's "silence" on the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip is unacceptable, the palace said.
"The humanitarian situation in Gaza has deteriorated in a way that silence has become unacceptable," a palace statement quoted the king as telling Blair over the telephone.
"The international community should help end this tragedy and press Israel to stop its aggression and open border crossings to allow aid and evacuate the wounded," the king said, according to the statement.
The Quartet includes the United States, the United Nations, the European Union, and Russia.
The king and Blair discussed "international efforts to halt Israel's military operations in Gaza," the statement said.
Jordan plans to build a field hospital in Gaza and send daily aid shipments to densely populated and impoverished territory.
On Thursday it evacuated eight Gazans from the Egyptian's city of El-Arish near Gaza to treat them in a military hospital in Amman.
More than 460 Palestinians have been killed in Israel's deadly campaign against the Islamist group Hamas, which rules Gaza.
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