AMMAN — The medical teams at the Jordanian field hospital on Monday arrived in northern Gaza to fulfil their humanitarian and medical mission in providing assistance and support to the residents of the Strip.

 

The commander of the Jordanian Field Hospital Force South Gaza received the new teams upon arrival, stressing the importance of their role in supporting hospital teams and sustaining the humanitarian mission in the field, according to a Jordan Armed Forces-Arab Army (JAF) statement.

 

He said that the deployment aims to ensure the continuity of medical services and enhance the hospital’s capacity to respond to the growing pressure on the health system amid the difficult humanitarian and health conditions in the Strip.

 

The new teams will begin duties across specialised clinics, medical departments, as well as administrative and logistical units, to ensure the continued provision of healthcare services to residents of Gaza around the clock.

 

Jordan runs two military field hospitals in Gaza, one in the Strip's north and was established in 2009 following the war in 2008, and the second is in Khan Younis in the south, which was established 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.

 

Other humanitarian programmes include the land bridge for aid delivery, the mobile bakery, the Restoring Hope Initiative, which provides prosthetics for amputees, and the evacuation of critical cases to Jordanian hospitals.