U.S. President Joe Biden was scheduled to visit the Middle East to discuss the conflict between Israel and Hamas and hold meetings with the heads of Egypt, Jordan, and the Palestinian Authority. However, all meetings were postponed or canceled due to news that a hospital in Gaza had been bombed.
The White House said through a joint press team on the 17th (local time), “As we have consulted with King Abdullah II and President Mahmoud Abbas has declared a period of mourning, President Biden is planning to go to Jordan with them and have a summit with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.” “We have decided to postpone,” he announced.
“President Biden expressed deep condolences for the loss of innocent lives in the explosion of a hospital in the Gaza Strip and prayed for a speedy recovery for the injured,” he said. “I look forward to meeting and consulting with these leaders in the near future and hope for regular and direct communication in the future.” “We agreed to share,” he said.
President Biden was scheduled to visit Israel on the 18th and then move to Jordan to hold talks with these leaders, but the meeting was postponed due to a rocket attack on Al-Ahli Arabi Baptist Hospital in the Gaza Strip that day, killing hundreds of people. .
The Hamas-run Gaza Strip’s health ministry announced that at least 500 people were killed in an explosion caused by an Israeli airstrike on a Gaza City hospital.
Afterwards, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas canceled a meeting with US President Joe Biden.
Currently, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) issued a statement under the name of its spokesperson on this day, claiming that this airstrike was the work of the terrorist group Islamic Jihad. Some are claiming that the hospital was blown up when a ‘Qassam’ rocket used by the Palestinian armed group Hamas misexploded.
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