Safadi said the meeting would be held at a time when the parties could agree to end the “war and the massacres against Palestinians”, blaming Israel with its military campaign for pushing the region to “the brink of the abyss.”

Biden was expected to make a whirlwind trip to Israel where he would later head to Jordan and according to Jordanian officials meet Egyptian president Abdel Fattah al Sisi and Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas.

Jordan’s King Abdullah would have hosted the four-way summit, which would have on its agenda the need to get humanitarian assistance to Gaza to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe and tamp down the conflict with Israel.

Abdullah has blamed Israel for a blast at a Gaza hospital that killed about 500 Palestinians on Tuesday, saying it was a “shame on humanity” and called on Israel to immediately end its military campaign against Gaza. Israeli and Palestinian officials blamed each other for the deaths.

The monarch warned that Israel’s response following a deadly cross border attack by Hamas on Oct 7 that killed and injured more than 1,000 Israelis went beyond the right of self defence to collective punishment of Palestinian civilians.