Good morning and welcome to way too early on this Wednesday, October 18th. I'm John

Flemere. Thanks for being with us as we are following breaking news this morning. Less than two

weeks after Hamas terror attacks sent Israel plunging into a new war. President Joe Biden is

now in that country to show solidarity with our Middle Eastern

ally. The president touched down in Tel Aviv about an hour ago where he was greeted on

the tarmac by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The two men, as you will see, shared

and embrace. The two are set to hold talks throughout the day as tensions in the war start to spill outside

Israel and Gaza. Last night, pro-Palestinian protesters clashed with police in parts of the

West Bank, Lebanon, Turkey, and Jordan, all in response to a deadly blast at a hospital in Gaza.

The Palestinian Health Ministry says that more than 200 people were killed there,

but Israeli and Gaza officials are both blaming the other side for the deadly violence.

That blast has already forced changes to the president's schedule.

Just as Biden was departing for Israel yesterday, the King of Jordan canceled a planned summit

between himself, Biden, the Palestinian leader, and the president of Egypt.

In a statement, Jordan's foreign minister wrote, quote, a summit would not be able to stop the war now.

That explosion at a Gaza hospital has killed hundreds of people under investigation as we speak.

It happened in Gaza City in the northern part of the territory that was placed under an evacuation

order by Israel last week.

Hamas, which launched terrorist attacks that set off this war,

immediately blamed Israel for the explosion.

Israel, for its part, says the explosion was caused by a misfired rocket

launched by another terrorist group, one known as Islamic Jihad.

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