2023-10-18 07:26:40
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Protests in Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and the West Bank after the Gaza hospital massacre
The massacre in the Gaza hospital has led to the outbreak of massive protests in cities in Jordan, Turkey, Iran, the West Bank and Lebanon.
One of the largest demonstrations took place in Istanbul, where a crowd carrying pro-Palestinian flags and banners gathered Tuesday night in front of the Israeli consulate and then entered the facilities after overcoming a police barricade.
Protests have also gathered at the American diplomatic legation in Iraq, at that of Israel in Jordan, at that of France in Iran and at that of the United Kingdom in the same country.
Incidents have occurred at the United States embassy in Beirut in Lebanon, a country to which Washington recommended not traveling and from which it authorized the departure of some non-emergency diplomatic personnel from the country due to the “unpredictable security situation.”
Local authorities attribute the hundreds of deaths at the Gaza hospital to an Israeli airstrike, while the Israeli Army maintains that the facility was hit by a failed Palestinian rocket launch. Here you can read everything we know.
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Biden maintains his trip to Israel but will not go to Jordan after the attack on the hospital
The Jordanian Foreign Minister, Ayman Safadi, has announced that Jordan will not host the quadripartite summit that was scheduled for today in Amman with the participation of the American president, Joe Biden, after the attack on a hospital in Gaza. White House National Security spokesman John Kirby has stated that the cancellation of Biden’s trip was by consensus, after Mahmoud Abbas wanted to mourn after the bombing.
Biden, who has condemned the attack and says he is gathering information about what happened, does maintain his trip to Tel Aviv to meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benhamin Netanyahu.
“The decision not to go to Amman was made mutually, when President Biden spoke with the king (Abdallah of Jordan) this afternoon. “They both agreed that now was not the time to try to organize this meeting, after President Abbas made it very clear, understandably, that he wanted to return home to spend three days of mourning,” Kirby said.
The spokesperson stated that Biden spoke by phone with the president of Egypt, Abdel Fattah al Sisi – promoter of the opening of a humanitarian corridor at the Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt – and with the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, and that he will speak to them again tomorrow, “on the flight home.”
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