Jordan cancels Arab summit with Biden after Gaza massacre

Jordan canceled a planned summit with U.S. President Joe Biden, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Jordan's King Abdullah II because it "would not be able to stop the war now," Jordan’s deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs said.

Ayman Al-Safadi said in a statement on Wednesday 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 summit, originally scheduled for later Wednesday, was canceled after an Israeli strike on a Gaza City hospital killed hundreds of people, according to the health ministry in Gaza. Hamas blamed an Israeli airstrike, while the Israeli military blamed a rocket misfired by other Palestinian militants.