US President’s diplomatic mission

Reuters has more details about what is expected to happen on US President, Joe Biden’s, a diplomatic mission to the Middle East. He is expected to leave Washington this evening.

Biden is expected to spend part of Wednesday in Tel Aviv for talks with the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and other officials. The US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, has already made two trips to Israel since the Hamas attack on 7 October.

Biden is then expected to fly to Amman in Jordan for talks about accelerating humanitarian assistance to Gaza, where he will meet Jordan’s King Abdullah, the Egyptian president, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, and the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas.

Reuters reports that the White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said: “He’ll make it clear that we want to continue working with all our partners in the region, including Israel, to get humanitarian assistance in and provide some kind of safe passage for civilians to get out.”