AL-Faraiah said, in a speech opening the session’s work, that Jordan has mobilized all available capabilities to reduce the humanitarian tragedy to which the people in Gaza are exposed, referring to the two field hospitals run by the Kingdom in southern and northern Gaza, and the aid that it is working to drop by air and deliver by land to those besieged in the Strip, and to receive A number of cancer patients and seriously ill patients receiving treatment in Jordanian hospitals inside the Kingdom.
He added that the war in Gaza is becoming more fierce and brutal, and the suffering of the people of the Strip is deepening, most of whom have become displaced and homeless, and the economic, social, humanitarian and health repercussions of the war are increasing.
He stated that many Gazan families lost loved ones and abandoned their homes, and cannot find treatment for their injured children, calling on the Council to provide whatever support and relief it can to displaced families, and to receive the wounded, in light of this difficult humanitarian circumstance.
Al-Faraiah explained that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) is the central body in providing support and public services, such as health, education, and general care for Palestinian refugees in Gaza and other Palestinian territories, as well as Palestinian refugees in the Arab countries that host them, including Jordan.
He continued that the UN agency is now facing difficult field and financial conditions, after some countries stopped providing the necessary funding to it, due to incorrect Israeli allegations about some of the agency’s employees.
He explained that the shortfall in funding provided to the agency, which may reach $450 million; It will greatly affect its ability to fulfill its various obligations, which requires all of us, each according to its ability, to support it, especially in these difficult circumstances in which this agency is considered the last refuge for at least more than one million and 700 thousand displaced people in Gaza alone.
He said, "We in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan still believe that the disaster in Gaza and other disasters, whether natural or man-made, confirm the necessity of working to find a regional relief center concerned with training human resources, developing the necessary plans and strategies to provide unified and coordinated collective support and relief, and conducting exercises." To implement these executive plans,” he called on the General Secretariat of the Council to consider the mechanisms for establishing such a center in the future.
Al-Faraiah referred to the scourge of drugs, indicating that Jordan, with the participation of its Jordanian Armed Forces - the Arab Army, and the security services, continues to confront drug smuggling operations of all kinds to prevent their spread and entry into Jordanian territory and from there to neighboring countries.
He stressed that the scourge of drugs has become one of the issues that is difficult to treat inside closed rooms. Because of the danger it poses that threatens our sons and daughters and destabilizes our societies, pointing out that drugs constitute a primary motive for crime.
He pointed out that the multiple and dangerous ways of promoting drugs have prompted us to confront them firmly and impose the harshest penalties against those dealing and involved in them, and to enforce the law against them through our security services that keep pace with emerging developments in this field and use technology to combat and track smuggling methods and arrest their perpetrators.
In this context, Al-Faraya pointed out the developments taking place in the drug smuggling process, and the use of methods and tools that were not used in the recent past in this regard, including:
The use of remote drones, through which Jordan has effectively succeeded in preventing many smuggling attempts.
He stated that the Interior Ministers of Iraq, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon recently held a coordination meeting in Amman, stressing that during the meeting it was agreed to establish a joint communication cell to follow up on information, exchange experiences, train and build capabilities, and increase the level of cooperation to confront this scourge.
He said, "This is an effort that those from neighboring countries who wish can join it to combat this phenomenon on a broader scale," stressing the importance of maintaining coordination between Arab countries as it is the guarantor of achieving security and peace for our peoples, and that the challenges we face are great and we will confront them with unity of ranks and speech.
On the sidelines of the session, Al-Faraya held meetings with his Emirati counterpart, His Highness Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nahyan, and his Bahraini counterpart, Sheikh Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa, during which
Discussing security cooperation and ways to enhance it between Jordan and the UAE and Bahrain.
During the meetings, Al-Faraya also discussed ways of cooperation between the Ministries of Interior in Jordan, the Emirates and Bahrain, and maintaining coordination and exchanging experiences, in a way that enhances joint Arab action.
Al-Faraiah presented to his Bahraini and Emirati counterparts the outcomes of the meeting hosted by Amman for a number of Arab interior ministers to discuss the scourge of drugs and ways to confront repeated attempts to smuggle drugs across the border.