New York, February 19 (QNA) - Jordan's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ayman Safadi, affirmed on Thursday that peace in the Middle East will not be achieved through consolidating Israeli occupation of lands in Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon, but rather through the two-state solution.

Addressing the United Nations Security Council on the situation in the Middle East and the Palestinian issue, Safadi said that the massacre in Gaza has stopped, but the suffering of its people has not ended.

Their homes remain destroyed, their schools lie in ruins, their children are hungry, and their wounded and sick are without treatment.

He pointed to the contribution of a plan proposed by Donald Trump in halting the war, noting that it laid out a roadmap for reconstruction, stabilizing the situation, and advancing toward peace.

He stressed that implementing the plan in full is the path to ending this suffering, describing the occupation authorities' decision to annex the West Bank as a blow to all prospects for a just peace and a move that mortgages the region's future to further wars, killing, and destruction, an act that the international community must not allow.

Safadi further stated that peace will not be realized through Israel's occupation of additional Syrian territory and actions that undermine the stability of a country whose people have begun to recover from decades of oppression and whose new government has started rebuilding the nation.

Nor, he added, will peace be achieved while Israel continues to occupy Lebanese land and fails to comply with the ceasefire agreement. (QNA)