US organizing summit on Gaza war for Arab foreign ministers in Amman, officials tell ToI

WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is organizing a summit for foreign ministers from its Arab ally countries when US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Amman on Saturday, a senior Arab diplomat and a US official tell The Times of Israel.

Washington will use the summit to rally regional partners behind as many of its policies regarding the Israel-Hamas war as possible, the US official says, pointing to the administration’s calls for humanitarian pauses, increasing humanitarian aid, rejecting the permanent displacement of Palestinians and opposing a permanent Israeli occupation in Gaza as some of the stances that the US’s Arab allies could support.

The invite list for the summit has not yet been finalized, the US official clarifies, while a State Department spokesperson declines to comment.