Jordanian field hospital new medical teams arrive in northern Gaza

AMMAN — The medical teams at the Jordanian field hospital on Thursday arrived in northern Gaza to carry out their humanitarian mission, offering medical assistance and support to residents of the war-torn strip.

The medical teams were accompanied by several trucks carrying humanitarian, medical, and treatment supplies, the Jordan News Agency, Petra, reported. 

Upon arrival, the teams immediately began taking the necessary measures and preparations to carry out their duties and perform their tasks with "competence and efficiency," preparing to start receiving patients in the coming days.

The former team returned home after providing medical and treatment services to around 24,747 patients, with a total of around 86,415 cases treated since the outbreak of the war on Gaza on October 7, 2023.

Jordan runs two military field hospitals in Gaza, one in the Strip's north, which was established in 2009 following the war in 2008.

The second was established in Khan Younis in the south in November 2023 at the peak of the Israeli war of aggression on the coastal enclave that erupted on October 7, 2023.

Besides the field hospitals in Gaza, the Jordan Armed Forces-Arab Army (JAF) established the Jordanian field hospital in Nablus in late November 2023 and has conducted over 900 surgeries and received more than 83,000 patients ever since.

Under Royal directives, the Kingdom, in cooperation with the World Central Kitchen, has dispatched a mobile bakery with a production capacity of 3,500 loaves of bread per hour to Gaza.

The mobile bakery is part of Jordan's ongoing efforts to provide humanitarian, relief and medical aid to Gaza through all means possible, by land and air.