Jordan cancels Biden’s meeting with Arab leaders amid hospital attack

U.S. President Joe Biden’s summit in Amman scheduled to take place later Wednesday has been cancelled, following a huge explosion at a Gaza hospital killed hundreds of people, Jordan’s Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi announced.

The summit was planned to held with President Joe Biden, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, and Jordan’s King Abdullah II.

“Biden looks forward to consulting in person with these leaders soon, and agreed to remain regularly and directly engaged with each of them over the coming days,” the White House official said.

Al-Safadi said that “Jordan will continue to work with everyone so that when this summit is held, it will be able to achieve what is required of it, which is to stop the war, deliver humanitarian support to the people of Gaza, and put an end to this crisis.”

The planned summit was aimed to discuss the dangerous developments in Gaza and their repercussions on the region and work towards finding a political horizon that will revive the peace process, Jordan’s royal court said.