Jordan's Queen Consort Rania Al Abdullah spoke to CNN about the Hamas attack on Israel, claiming that there is "no evidence" that Hamas terrorists beheaded Israeli infants, and that the reports of beheadings were never verified.
In an interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour, Queen Rania also accused the West of holding a "glaring double standard" by not condemning Israel's bombardment of Gaza, which despite Israel's best efforts has affected civilians as well as terrorists.
"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," she told the news outlet. "In the last couple of weeks, we have seen a glaring double standard in the world."
According to Queen Rania, "This is the first time in modern history that there is such human suffering and the world is not even calling for a ceasefire. So the silence is deafening – and to many in our region, it makes the Western world complicit."
When asked for her reaction to the massacre of Israelis, she said, "Jordan has made its position very clear: We condemn the killing of any civilian, whether Palestinian or Israeli. That is Jordan's ethical and moral position. And it's also the position of Islam. Islam condemns the killing of civilians."
When asked about the position of her husband, Jordan's King Abdullah II, Queen Rania told CNN that Gazans have "two choices," claiming that Israel is offering "a choice between expulsion or extermination, between ethnic cleansing and genocide."
"No people should be given, [should] have to face, that kind of choice. The people of Palestine should not, [the people] of Gaza should not, be forced to be moved again."
Israel expelled its citizens from Gaza, then called Gush Katif in the 2005 Disengagement. Since then, Israel has been forced into 15 military operations due to terror emanating from the Hamas-ruled enclave. On October 7, Hamas terrorists acted to exterminate Jews and Israelis, and were instructed to take over and ethnically cleanse the Israeli towns near the border, by carrying out genocide of a nature similar to the Holocaust.
Queen Rania noted that the war between Israel and Hamas did not begin on October 7: "This is a 75-year-old story," she said, though in her opinion it is "a story of an occupation under apartheid regime," and the establishment of a "free, sovereign and independent" state of Palestine is the only path to peace.