Biden flies in to storm as Gaza hospital blast sinks Jordan summit and ignites protests

US president to meet only Israeli figures on Wednesday after Jordan summit cancelled and protests spread across the Middle East

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A deadly blast at a hospital in Gaza City has upended US diplomatic efforts aimed at fending off the humanitarian disaster in Gaza and thrown a dark shadow over president Joe Biden’s imminent visit to the region.

Late on Tuesday, Jordan cancelled a summit in Amman in which Biden had been due to hold talks with King Abdullah, the Egyptian president Abdel Fatah al-Sisi and Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas. The cancellation came as the US president was en route to Israel for talks with Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday morning.

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