2023-10-18 00:09:52
Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi announced that Jordan decided not to host the quadripartite summit which was scheduled for this Wednesday, in Amman with the participation of the American president, Joe Bidenafter the attack on a hospital in Gaza with at least 500 dead.
The minister made these statements to Jordanian state television Al Mamlaka after the Arab country declared three days of mourning for the bombing of the Al Ahli hospital in Gaza. “If this summit is held, we want it to produce a solution that is none other than stopping the war, respecting the humanity of the Palestinians and giving them the help they deserve,” he said, adding that this war is “pushing the region into the abyss.” “.
Egyptian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ahmed Abu Zeid confirmed that the summit was canceled in a statement. Shortly before the cancellation, the Palestinian president announced that he would not participate in the summit.
In the midst of the race, the American president is scheduled to visit Israel this Wednesday, where he will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
On the agenda of Biden’s meeting with the main Arab mediators in the war in the Gaza Strip -Egypt, Jordan and the Palestinian National Authority-, included the search for ways to bring humanitarian aid to the Palestinian enclave, achieve the exit of foreigners blocked there and contain the escalation of the conflict.
A bombing on a hospital in central Gaza caused at least 500 deaths this Tuesday, while air attacks on the Strip continue and many civilians take refuge in health centers to protect themselves from the bombs, denounced the Islamist movement Hamas, which controls the Palestinian enclave. The Israeli military said the explosion at the hospital was due to a failed rocket launch by Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) militants into Israel.
This is the attack with the highest number of fatalities committed so far, since the war broke out on October 7 between the Palestinian militias of Gaza and Israel, which has resulted in more than 3,000 deaths in Gaza and 1,400 deaths in Israeli territory. .
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