What can Biden’s Israel visit accomplish after Gaza hospital bombing_

Hours after an Israeli air raid struck Gaza City’s Al-Ahli Arab Hospital on Wednesday morning, killing at least 500 people according to health authorities, United States President Joe Biden will land in Israel.
The hospital was housing thousands of patients and other civilians seeking shelter from the non-stop bombardment of the Gaza Strip by Israel since the October 7 attack by the Palestinian armed group Hamas on southern Israel.
Biden’s trip to Washington’s closest ally in the Middle East was planned before Tuesday’s deadly hospital strike and is a high-stakes visit as Israel continues to pummel Gaza in advance of an impending ground offensive.
But Israel’s attack on the hospital has already had diplomatic consequences for Biden. Jordan, which was also supposed to host Biden for a summit with the country’s King Abdullah II, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, has called off the meetings. Biden is no longer welcome in Amman at the moment.
Biden said, in a post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, that he was “outraged and deeply saddened” by the attack on Al-Ahli Arab Hospital, but did not criticise Israel.

Al Jazeera’s Mike Hanna has more from Washington, DC.

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