 U.S. President Joe Biden arrived in Tel Aviv on October 18 for meetings with Israeli leaders during a Middle East trip that was upended by a strike on a Gaza hospital on October 17, in which hundreds of Palestinians were killed. Biden is meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and show U.S. support in the aftermath of an attack on Israeli villages and military bases by Gaza-based Hamas gunmen that killed hundreds of people on October 7.After his meetings in Israel, Biden had planned to travel to Jordan for meetings with Arab leaders, but that stop was canceled after the strike on the hospital which Palestinian officials blamed on Israel and Israel blamed on the Palestinian Islamic Jihad group, Israel is expected to launch a ground offensive in Gaza. The United States has been pressing Israelis to allow humanitarian aid into help civilians.