Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi announced that Jordan has decided not to host the four-party summit that was due to take place in Amman next Wednesday and where the participation of US President Joe Biden was expected.
After learning of the attack, President Joe Biden decided to suspend his risky trip to the Middle East after Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas canceled a meeting with Biden and Arab leaders following the attack. rocket attack on a hospital in Gaza, killing 500, whose authorship is unclear, as Israel blames Islamic Jihad for the attack, while Hamas blamed Israel for the attacks.
Jordan’s King Abdullah II and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi are also expected to attend the meeting between Biden and Abbas to discuss the “serious” consequences of the war between Israel and the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), which sparked after the attacks launched by the Islamist group on October 7.
In solidarity with the Palestinian enclave, Jordan has declared three days of mourning following the bombing of the Al Ahli hospital in Gaza, which left hundreds dead.
Biden vows to maintain contact “in the coming days” with the three Arab leaders he was due to meet: King Abdullah II of Jordan, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Egyptian leader Abdel Fatah al Sisi.
Protest in the West Bank
Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets in several cities in the occupied West Bank this Tuesday to protest the bombing of a hospital in the Gaza Strip, which caused at least 500 deaths and which Palestinian authorities blamed on the Israeli army, which denied its involvement. .
The demonstrations quickly spread to the cities of Nablus, Ramallah, Tubas, Qalqilya, Hebron and Tulkarem, among others.
The demonstrators, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported, “denounced the massacre committed by the Israeli occupation at Al Ahli Hospital in Gaza.”
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The agency added that the protests were called by the ruling Fatah party, which heads the Palestinian National Authority (PNA), which governs the West Bank.
The attack on Al Ahli Hospital comes on the eleventh day of the war between Israel and the Gaza Strip militias, marked by heavy bombardment, with thousands of civilians taking refuge in health centers packed with wounded people. (JO)
Source: Eluniverso
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