The White House said, Thursday, U.S. President Joe Biden's first in-person meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett was postponed to Friday.
Bennett was supposed to mark his first visit to the U.S. since taking office, but his meeting with Biden was canceled after more than a dozen people were killed in explosions outside Kabul airport.
Meantime, Biden is holding consultations on the deadly explosions in Afghanistan, the White House stated.
The President also had planned to meet virtually with a bipartisan group of governors who have said they want to help resettle Afghan refugees fleeing their now Taliban-ruled country.
Moreover, a regular briefing by government health and medical experts, scheduled for Thursday, also was postponed.
Two suicide bombers and gunmen targeted crowds massing near the Kabul airport in the final days of a massive airlift that has drawn thousands of people seeking to flee the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.
The deadly developments in Kabul forced the White House to tear up the president’s schedule, as he monitored the airport situation that was prompted by the Tuesday deadline he set for removing American citizens and troops from Afghanistan.
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