AMMAN — The Jordanian field hospital in in northern Gaza responded on Monday to an urgent humanitarian appeal made by a local journalist seeking a vital medication for his wife, which had completely run out in local markets and was only allowed to enter in very limited quantities.

 

A statement from the Jordan Armed Forces-Arab Army (JAF) said that the hospital’s medical and administrative teams took “immediate” action upon receiving the plea, and secured the treatment and delivered it directly to the patient, amid the challenging conditions and severe shortages of medicines and medical supplies in the war-torn Strip.

 

The hospital force commander said that the initiative reflects Jordan’s humanitarian duty towards Palestinians in Gaza and aligns with the noble mission carried out by JAF to alleviate the suffering of civilians.

 

He added that the medical teams continue to provide healthcare and meet urgent treatment needs despite the significant challenges facing the healthcare sector there, the statement said.

 

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

 

The Israeli occupation on Sunday assassinated six journalists and photographers in an airstrike targeting their tent near Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, as part of a systematic criminal approach aimed at suppressing press freedom.