The American president’s visit to Israel lasted eight hours, during which he promised the Benjamin Netanyahu that Washington will provide Israel with everything it needs to defend itself while the country is at war with Hamas. But despite promises of humanitarian aid to Gaza, anger against the US and Israel from the Arab world is growing with the West’s great fear that a possible involvement of Hezbollah at the war.

Joe Biden after declaring “sad and angry” from the explosion at the Al-Ahli hospital in the Gaza Strip while declaring that he is convinced that Israel is not behind yesterday’s bombing with the phrase “looks like it was done by the other team,” gave the “green light” for the launch of humanitarian aid to Gaza raising hopes for a major breakthrough in the rapidly escalating humanitarian crisis in the region.

This announcement undoubtedly constitutes some relief to the hundreds of thousands of Gazanswho remain cut off from food, water and fuel since Israel imposed a complete siege on the area.

At the same time, Biden announced new funding of $100 million from the US for humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. “The US will provide $100 million in humanitarian assistance to the people of Gaza and the West Bank through trusted partners, including UN agencies and international NGOs,” the White House said in a statement on Wednesday.

Israel, for its part, has agreed that humanitarian aid can go to Gaza but only from Egypt. “Israel will allow Egypt to deliver limited amounts of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip,” announced the office of the Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. “In light of President Biden’s request, Israel will not block humanitarian supplies from Egypt as long as they are only food, water and medicine for the civilian population in the southern Gaza Strip” he added.

“Israel will not allow any humanitarian aid from its territory to the Gaza Strip unless our hostages are returned” he emphasized.

Anger is rising in Arab countries

The same time, anger against the US and Israel is growing. Angry protesters from Morocco to Iran took to the streets today Wednesday to protest the bombing of Al-Ahli Hospital where 471 people died.

In Turkey, which recently improved its relations with Iran protesters burned Israeli flags in front of the consulate in Istanbul. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blamed the US and the West for their attitude, saying that “Western countries, which leave no stone unturned when it comes to human rights and freedoms, have taken no other steps than adding fuel to the fire ».

In Lebanon, protesters headed towards the US Embassy with security forces stopping them with tear gas and water. At the same time, the State Department strengthened its travel guidelines to the strictest level, warning US citizens not to visit the country. Jordan’s Foreign Ministry described the hospital bombing as a “heinous war crime that cannot be ignored” and called on Israel to “stop its aggression against Gaza”.

In his statements, the Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El Sisi warned that what he saw was an Israeli attempt to forcefully displace Palestinians from Gaza and into Egypt.

Conflicts occurred and in Jordan, where several people were injured. Protesters set fire to property near the embassy, ​​police said, and chanted: “No Zionist embassy in Arab land.”

Demonstrators also gathered at the US embassy in Beirut, expressing their anger at Israel’s attack on the Gaza hospital.

What is the West afraid of?

And while anger grows, the biggest strategic fear for Washington, Israel and many Western countries remains the spread of the war beyond Israel’s borders. Iran has already threatened not to stand by Israel while Palestinians are being killed in Gaza. At the same time, the tension in the eastern Mediterranean is already high after the placement of the two American aircraft carriers in the open sea.

At the same time, there are reports in Arab media of Iranian-backed militias moving west from Iraq and Syria into southern Lebanon, closer to Israel’s border, according to the BBC. Hezbollah in Lebanon continues to remain the West’s greatest fear as its possible involvement would likely mean turning the current war between Israel and Hamas into a regional one.

A total of nine rockets were fired from Lebanese territory today and passed into northern Israel, the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement. Four of the rockets were intercepted, the IDF said.

Hezbollah fought an inconclusive war with Israel in 2006 and has since renewed its supply of rockets and missiles which are believed to number around 150,000 today. Some of them are of long range and precision, enough to level entire ministries in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. In the event that the Israeli forces finally decide to get involved in this war, then it is almost certain that Hezbollah will be involved, lighting new fires in the already explosive landscape that will be difficult to extinguish.