Jordan foreign minister: 'I don't understand how Israel can wipe out Hamas'

Jordan's foreign minister has cast doubt on the feasibility of Israel's goal of obliterating Hamas in the Gaza Strip. 

"Israel says it wants to wipe out Hamas. There's a lot of military people here, I just don't understand how this objective can be realised," Ayman Safadi said on Saturday.

He added that Jordan would do "whatever it takes to stop" the displacement of Palestinians, amid Israel's relentless bombardment and siege on the enclave.

"We will never allow that to happen, in addition to it being a war crime, it would be a direct threat to our national security. We'll do whatever it takes to stop it," Safadi said during a security summit in Bahrain.

"This war is not taking us anywhere but towards more conflict, more suffering and the threat of expanding into regional wars."