German Chancellor Olaf Scholz called for an urgent ceasefire in the Gaza War after meeting Jordan’s King Abdullah in the southern Jordanian port of Aqaba on Sunday. “It is absolutely clear that we now have to do everything to prevent the situation becoming worse than it already is,” Scholz said. On his second visit to the region since the war started, the German chancellor came out against an Israeli ground offensive into Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip. “I believe that a large number of casualties from an offensive of this kind would make all peaceful development extremely difficult,” he…