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Abbas cancels Biden meeting

Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas has cancelled his participation in a meeting with, among others, U.S. President Joe Biden, a senior Palestinian official told the Associated Press. The cancellation comes in protest against a suspected Israeli airstrike on a hospital in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday. According to Hamas, 500 people have been killed in the attack. In addition to Biden, Abbas was also scheduled to meet with Egypt’s president, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, and Jordan’s King Abdullah. /ritzau/