 German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on October 17 called for preventing an escalation in the Middle East and warned Hezbollah and Iran against intervening in the conflict between Israel and Hamas Scholz's comments came during a meeting with the King of Jordan and shortly before his trip to Israel. Scholz reiterated Germany's absolute support of Israel but called for intensive crisis diplomacy in view of the ongoing fighting between Israel and radical Palestinians and the dramatic supply situation of. The people in the Gaza Strip, Scholz and Jordan's King Abdullah warned against making all Palestinians responsible for Hamas actions Abdullah warned. The region is on the brink, urging that civilians on both sides must be protected. Jordan's King did however warn against trying to push Palestinian refugees into Egypt or Jordan, adding that the humanitarian situation must be dealt with inside Gaza and the West Bank, stressing that a third of Jordan's population is already of Palestinian origin. The people in the Gaza Strip, Scholz and Jordan's King Abdullah warned against making all Palestinians responsible for Hamas actions Abdullah warned. The Palestinians and Palestinians are not Hamas and Hamas has no right to speak for them. The Palestinians, the people and the Gaza Strip are also the victims of Hamas. Good morning, Your Majesty. With the 100,000 Syrian and Palestinian refugees, your country has achieved great things in the past year. With this difficult task, we will not leave it alone. Germany is the second-largest Bilater money giver for humanitarian aid and development cooperation. I thank you for the commitment of the King's Reich and tell you our further support. Thousands of innocent civilians have been lost, Palestinian lives, Israeli lives. These are sons, these are daughters, these are mothers, fathers, husbands and wives. Many more lives are at risk. Hundreds of thousands have no access to food, water, electricity and other basic services. This is unacceptable on all levels, legal and human. Your Excellency, the whole region is at the brink of falling into the abyss that this new cycle of death and destruction is pushing us towards. The threat of this war expanding is real. The cost this will bring on all of us is too much to bear. All our efforts are needed to make sure we don't get there. I think I can quite strongly speak on behalf not only of Jordan as a nation but of our friends in Egypt. That is a red line because I think that is the plan by certain of the usual suspects to try and create de facto issues on the ground. No refugees in Jordan, no refugees in Egypt. This is a situation of humanitarian dimension that has to be dealt inside of Gaza and the West Bank and not to try and push the Palestinian challenge and their future onto other people's shoulders.