Jordan announced, on Tuesday, the cancellation of a summit with the American presidents, Joe Biden, the Egyptian president, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, and the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, which was scheduled to be held in Amman on Wednesday, following a bombing that targeted a hospital in Gaza, killing 500 people.
Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said in media statements that the Amman summit was canceled because “there is no point in talking now about anything except stopping the war.”
Reuters quoted a White House official as saying that Biden canceled his visit to Jordan after consulting with King Abdullah II.
Jordan “strongly condemned the Israeli attack on a hospital in Gaza, which led to the death of hundreds of injured and displaced civilians,” according to a Foreign Ministry statement.
The Jordanian statement stressed the need to provide protection for the Palestinian people, and called for immediate concerted efforts to stop the raging war in Gaza.
The Jordanian monarch, King Abdullah II, said that the bombing of a hospital in Gaza, which killed and injured hundreds, on Tuesday, is a “massacre” and a “war crime” that cannot be tolerated.
In a statement issued by the Royal Court, the Jordanian king, who blamed Israel, said that Israel must immediately end its war on the Gaza Strip and that its actions against innocent Palestinians are a “disgrace to humanity.”
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas decided to return to Ramallah after bombing a hospital in Gaza.
Ambassador Ahmed Abu Zeid, the official spokesman for the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, stated, “In coordination between 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, on Wednesday, October 18, in light of the bombing of the Baptist Hospital in the Strip.” Gaza, and hundreds of casualties among the Palestinian people as a result of this bombing.”
The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced, on Tuesday, that at least 500 people were killed in an “Israeli air strike” on the National Arab Hospital in the Strip, according to what was reported by Reuters.
The Palestinian News Agency (Wafa) indicated that hundreds were killed and wounded in the bombing of Al-Ahly Al-Arabi Hospital (Al-Maamdani) in a neighborhood in Gaza City.
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2023-10-17 21:27:57
