The meeting has been cancelled as the US president travels to Israel. Follow live for the latest updates.
Jordan has cancelled a summit it was to host in Amman on Wednesday with US President Joe Biden and the Egyptian and Palestinian leaders, amid claims of an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital that killed hundreds.Israel has denied responsibility for the hospital blast, and claims the building was hit by a rocket misfired by Palestinian militants.
Joe Biden held a bilateral meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, last month.As the president prepared to take off from Washington, the explosion at the Gaza hospital – a humanitarian disaster – felt like a hideous inflection point.
As we mentioned earlier, his summit with Jordanian, Egyptian and Palestinian leaders has been cancelled following the hospital explosion in Gaza.Jordan has cancelled a summit it was to host in Amman on Wednesday with US President Joe Biden and the Egyptian and Palestinian leaders to discuss the situation in Gaza, the country's foreign minister, Ayman Safadi, said.
Gilad Bino, a Jewish man who grew up in Jerusalem, said he was "emotionally drained by the horrors that have happened in Israel". The site is only about 5 kilometres from the Gaza border, but they felt comfortable camping in the open air.You can only imagine the confusion festival goers must have felt when they saw people paragliding over the campsite.Hamas leader blames US and Israel for blast at Gaza hospital
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