Both leaders meet ahead of talks with US Secretary of State Blinken who was expected to arrive later on Thursday to discuss ways to defuse Israel's aggression toward Gaza residents.
Jordan's King Abdullah and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas have called for steps to prevent a deterioration in the Gaza crisis and they condemned what they called Israel's"collective punishment" of Palestinians.
Abdullah and Abbas also called on the international community to pressure Israel to allow humanitarian corridors into Gaza to allow food and aid as NGOs and aid groups warned of a humanitarian catastrophe. Jordan has sent a military plane with medical aid to the Egyptian city of Rafah in Sinai, Egypt, to try to get Israel to allow the cargo through a single border crossing with Gaza.
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