AMMAN — The Jordan Armed Forces-Arab Army (JAF) on Monday evacuated the 26th group of sick children from the Gaza Strip, consisting of 81 children accompanied by 108 family members, as part of the “Jordanian Medical Corridor” initiative launched under Royal directives.

 

The patients will undergo treatment at several Jordanian hospitals, a move that reflects the Kingdom's unwavering medical and humanitarian commitment to supporting the Palestinian people in the war-torn Strip, Al Mamlaka TV reported.

 

The medical evacuations, launched in March 2025, were implemented in coordination with the Ministry of Health and the World Health Organisation (WHO), following the highest medical and humanitarian standards.

 

The Jordanian Medical Corridor, launched by His Majesty King Abdullah, provides ongoing care for sick children from Gaza and forms part of Jordan’s wider humanitarian efforts.

 

Jordan also 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 mobile bakery and the Restoring Hope Initiative, which provides prosthetics for amputees.