The president Joe Biden will travel to Israel next Wednesday the 18th. will demonstrate US support for this country, and will also visit Jordan to meet with Arab leaders and negotiate the opening of a humanitarian corridor.

Speaking from Tel Aviv, Secretary of State Antony Blinken said the American president would travel to Israel. know first-hand what the country needs “to protect its people” and demonstrate the United States’ solidarity and its “strong commitment” to the country’s security.

This was stated by the head of the US Foreign Department. after more than seven hours of meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuand Israeli War Cabinet officials.

In a call with the media shortly after the announcement, a White House Department of Homeland Security spokesman said: John Kirby detailed that Biden will meet with Netanyahu and other government officialson a trip that will have “appropriate safety parameters.”

“We wouldn’t talk about such a trip “if we didn’t feel comfortable that appropriate safety parameters existed” clarified the press secretary, who did not specify where Biden would go, and said that there would be no press conference of the US President on Israeli territory.

It will be a short trip and Biden will also visit Amman in Jordan on the same day.where he will meet with King Abdullah, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to discuss humanitarian assistance and the possible opening of a corridor at the Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt.

“We want to ensure that humanitarian aid starts flowing” and to have a “safe route for people to leave,” especially “American citizens, about 100 of whom were unable to leave the Gaza Strip,” said Kirby, who did not want to give a date for the opening.

“We would like to see this continue and obviously as soon as possible. because there is a need, but I can’t give you a date tonight,” he said.

The White House statement said that B.Eden spoke by phone today with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.with whom he discussed “ongoing efforts to mitigate the worsening humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip in coordination with the UN, Jordan, the Palestinian Authority, Israel and other regional partners, as well as the need to maintain stability in the Middle East more broadly.”

Blinken is in Israel to explore the possible opening of this humanitarian corridor allow thousands of people to leave the Gaza Strip while the Israeli army prepares to enter the enclave.

This is the second visit of the head of American diplomacy to Israel. since the start of the war on October 7 between the Israelis and Palestinian militias in the Gaza Strip led by Hamas.

Blinken and Netanyahu meeting today was interrupted by air raid sirens and both had to take refuge in a bunker for several minutes, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters accompanying the Secretary of State.

Once the danger has passed, They resumed their meeting at the command center At the headquarters of the Israeli Ministry of Defense, the meeting lasted almost eight hours.

In a subsequent brief appearance to the press in which he announced Biden’s trip, Blinken assured that the president would “clear the situation again” with him, as he has done “unequivocally” since then. “an unprecedented massacre of more than 1,400 people” that Israel “has the right and responsibility to protect its people from Hamas and other terrorists and to prevent future attacks.”

The President added Blinken ‘will learn from Israel what it needs to protect its people’ and will emphasize a “very clear” message that any actor, state or non-state, who seeks to take advantage of this crisis to attack Israel will not do so.

You will also learn latest details of the Hamas kidnapping of Americans and will try to “coordinate efforts” to get them to “return home.”

“President Biden will receive a full briefing on Israel’s objectives and military strategy” and “will hear Israel say how it will conduct its operations in a manner that minimizes civilian casualties and allows humanitarian assistance to flow to the civilian population in the Gaza Strip in a manner that does not cause harm Hamas,” Blinken added.

(EFE)