An American official said that President Joe Biden canceled his visit to Jordan after consulting with the Jordanian king.
The White House confirmed that Biden spoke to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Jordanian King Abdullah after the attack on the Gaza hospital.
A White House spokesman indicated that the main reason for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s withdrawal from the Amman summit was the declaration of mourning for three days after the attack on the hospital.
Jordan: No summit without stopping the massacres
Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi told the official Al-Mamlaka TV channel, “After consulting with our Palestinian brothers and our brothers in Egypt and after talking with the United States, we decided not to hold the quadripartite summit that was scheduled in Amman for Wednesday.”
He explained that the Kingdom decided to cancel the summit “because we want it, if it is held, to produce one solution and no other, which is to stop the war, respect the humanity of the Palestinians, and deliver the aid they deserve.”
Al-Safadi continued, “Since that will not be possible (Wednesday), we decided not to hold this summit, provided that the summit is held at a time when its decision is to stop the war, stop these massacres, stop the bloodshed, and stop this war and this aggression that is pushing the entire region into the abyss.”
He stressed that “the international community must put an end to the bloodshed, the continuation of which constitutes a disgrace to humanity.”
In Cairo, the official spokesman for the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ahmed Abu Zeid, stated that, in coordination with Egypt, Jordan, and the Palestinian Authority, it was decided to cancel the quadripartite summit that was scheduled to be held in the Jordanian capital, Amman, in light of the bombing of the Baptist Hospital in the Gaza Strip, and the fall of hundreds of victims among the Palestinian people. As a result of this bombing.
A senior Palestinian official said that President Mahmoud Abbas canceled a scheduled meeting with US President Joe Biden, following an Israeli raid on the Al-Ahly Arab “Baptist” Hospital in Gaza on Tuesday, which led to the deaths of hundreds.
The senior Palestinian official said that Abbas decided to return to Ramallah.
2023-10-17 21:24:58
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