06-08-2025
Jordan receives ninth group of 15 Gaza child patients under medical corridor initiative
DEAD SEA — Jordan on Wednesday received a new group of child patients and their family companions evacuated from Gaza as part of the Jordan Medical Corridor initiative.
The latest batch, the ninth since the programme began, included 15 child patients and 43 accompanying family members. The group arrived on August 6, 2025, despite persistent challenges related to the situation on the ground in Gaza, according to a Royal Court statement.
Since the launch of the initiative on March 4, 2025, Jordan has evacuated a total of 439 individuals, including 134 patients and 303 family members, in cooperation with the World Health Organisation (WHO).
The initiative was announced by His Majesty King Abdullah, during a meeting with US President Donald Trump at the White House on February 11, 2025, to treat 2,000 child patients from Gaza in successive stages.
The patients would be received at top public and private hospitals, where they undergo high-quality medical treatment. Once their treatment is complete, they and their companions return to Gaza, the statement said.
Officials stressed that despite Jordan's commitment to expanding and accelerating the evacuation process, logistical constraints facing the WHO, coupled with Israeli restrictions and security concerns, continue to hinder transfers.
"Ongoing Israeli military operations had complicated efforts to ensure the safe transfer of patients and their families to and within assembly points."
Jordan has also coordinated the evacuation of child patients to other countries for treatment, as part of wider international humanitarian efforts, the statement said.
The Jordan Medical Corridor is one of several ongoing initiatives launched by the Kingdom to support the people of Gaza.
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 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.
The Kingdom, in cooperation with the World Central Kitchen, has also dispatched a mobile bakery with a production capacity of 3,500 loaves of bread per hour to Gaza.
Other humanitarian programmes include the land and air bridges for aid delivery, the Restoring Hope Initiative, which provides prosthetics for amputees, and the evacuation of critical cases to Jordanian hospitals.
Jordan remains steadfast in its commitment to alleviating the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza through all available means, the statement said.
