2023-10-18 03:47:00
The trip of the American president Joe Biden to Jordan in wartime failed before taking off this Tuesday, following the section to the capital Amman was canceled following an attack on a Gaza hospital that killed at least 500 people. In any case, the president of the United States yes travel to Israel.
The king of Jordan was going to attend the summitAbdullah II, the egyptian presidentAbdelfatá al Sisi, and the president of PalestineMahmoud Abbas, in addition to Biden, according to the newspaper The Times of Israel. “The president sends his condolences for the innocent lives lost in the Gaza hospital explosion and has wished a speedy recovery to the injured“said the White House.
As Biden, 80, climbed the stairs of the Air Force OneJordan announced that the summit had been cancelled, which It will be held “when the decision has been made to stop the war and put an end to these massacres”said Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi.
Biden later said he was “outraged” by the “explosion” at the hospital and had asked his national security team to obtain more information regarding what happened. The authorities of the Gaza Strip, controlled by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), denounced that the bombing of the Al Ahli hospital was Israeli, while the Israeli army assured that the missile was launched by mistake by the Islamic Jihad.
The American president will postpone the trip to Jordan, which was always the most risky of his presidencysince it tried to make compatible the support for Israel following the Hamas attacks of October 7 with efforts to prevent a humanitarian disaster in Gaza and avoid a broader war. Even before the hospital attack, The New York Times described it as a “journey full of risks.”
The Democratic president deliberated carefully before accepting a visiting invitation from right-wing Netanyahu, who ordered preparations for what is expected to be a bloody ground offensive once morest Hamas in Gaza. There was always a risk that, when traveling, Biden would find himself closely associated with the Israeli bombing of Gazawhich has devastated huge swathes and killed more than 3,000 people.
The spokesman for the White House National Security Council, John Kirby, told reporters aboard the presidential plane that the Israelis “feel strongly that this was not caused by them.” He added that It was a “mutual decision” to cancel the trip to Jordan following the Palestinian president said he wanted to return home for three days of mourning, and that Biden would speak with him and the Egyptian representative by phone on the plane home.
Biden would hold talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his war cabinet, as well as meet with the families of some of those killed and missing in the attacks, he said. Kirby insisted, however, that the US president would ask Netanyahu “tough questions” regarding his plans for war..
Kirby assured that there are no plans to put US troops in Gaza, but added that his country’s military assets were in place to “demonstrate a sincere ability to protect and defend” US national security interests. Besides, Biden warned Iran and Hezbollah not to get involved and sent two aircraft carriers to the eastern Mediterranean to deter them.
Hamas leaderIsmail Haniyeh, blamed the United States for supporting Israel following the bombing of the hospital. Haniye called the bombing “brutality” and noted that this “confirms the extent of their defeat,” while also called on Palestinians living in the West Bank to rise up once morest the “Israeli occupation”as reported by the television network Al Yazeera. For its part, Egypt and Jordan blamed Israel for the bombing once morest the hospital and stressed that the attack is a violation of Humanitarian Law.
In addition, angry protesters They tried to break into the Israeli embassy in Amman, where Biden was due to meet with the other leaders, while in the Iranian capital, Tehran, hundreds of people demonstrated in front of the French and British embassies. For its part, Hezbollah of Lebanon, backed by Iran, called for a “day of wrath” for the attack to coincide with Biden’s arrival, fueling fears of escalation by Tehran and its allies, which Biden’s visit theoretically warns once morest.
Gaza reported more than 500 dead from a bombing of a hospital in the north of the Strip
Health officials in Gaza said Tuesday that at least 500 people died in an airstrike once morest a hospital complex housing injured and displaced by Israeli bombings, sparking condemnation and fury in the Middle East. The Hamas-run Health Ministry claimed Israel was behind the attack on the Ahil Arab hospital in central Gaza, but the Israeli military attributed it to a malfunctioning rocket fired by Islamic Jihad militants.
According to the WHO, the Ahli Arab hospital complex was operational and receiving the wounded, medical personnel and internally displaced people. Israel attributed the bombing to a “failed rocket launch” by Islamic Jihad., another Palestinian organization operating in the enclave. But Islamic Jihad called the Israeli complaint a “lie” and accused Israel of “evading responsibility for the brutal massacre it committed by bombing the hospital.”
According to the Ministry of Health of Hamas, which has ruled the Gaza Strip since 2006, “200 to 300 people” died in the bombing carried out by “the occupier” (Israeli) once morest the hospital in Gaza City, and “Hundreds of people are under the rubble”. “The hospital housed hundreds of sick and wounded people, as well as people forcibly displaced” due to the Israeli bombings, the statement said, denouncing a “war crime”.
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