Jordan cancels summit with Biden after Gaza hospital massacre for which Israel and Hamas blame each other

The Foreign Minister of Jordan, Ayman Safadi, has announced that the Arab country is canceling the summit scheduled this Wednesday with the president of the United States, Joe Biden, in Amman after the bombing reported by the Gazan authorities against a hospital in the north of the Gaza Strip, in which hundreds of people have died so far.

The king of Jordan, Abdullah II, the Egyptian president, Abdel Fattá al Sisi, and the president of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, were going to attend the summit, in addition to the aforementioned Biden, according to The Times of Israel newspaper.

The authorities of the Gaza Strip, controlled by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), reported this Tuesday the death of at least 500 people in a bombing of the Al Ahli hospital, located in the north of the enclave.

For its part, the Israeli Army has assured that the missile that hit the hospital was launched by mistake by Islamic Jihad.. Likewise, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused the “barbaric Gaza terrorists” of the event.