President Joe Biden boards Air Force One for a trip to Israel, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md.
President Joe Biden boards Air Force One for a trip to Israel, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md.
  • President Joe Biden landed in Tel Aviv on Wednesday morning, amid the Israel-Hamas war.
  • His trip was announced just a day earlier, but it's been beset by two major complications overnight.
  • He'll have to address a hospital blast in Gaza that's sparked global outrage and cancelled his summit with Arab leaders.

As President Joe Biden landed on Wednesday morning in Tel Aviv, Israel, he found himself having to contend with two critical developments threatening to undermine his wartime visit.

Biden, who is to meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, is now mired in a political arena somehow fraught with greater risk than before.