Israel orders evacuation of Jordanian hospital in Gaza: Jordan

The Jordanian government has announced that the Israeli regime forces ordered a Jordanian field hospital set up in the Gaza Strip to be evacuated as it continues its genocidal attacks on the Palestinian territory.

The government of the neighboring Arab country, which is situated on the eastern border of the Palestinian West Bank territory, announced on Tuesday that Israel had ordered the evacuation of the hospital.

However, Jordanian Prime Minister Bisher al Khasawneh added on state media that the Arab country will not evacuate.

He said Jordan's army was beefing up its presence along the border in view of the ongoing massacre and developments in Gaza.

The Jordanian hospital and other hospitals in Gaza had been shelled by Israeli forces last week.

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Jordan’s Foreign Minister, Ayman Safadi, reported then that the hospital staff faced an unexpected shelling, resulting in injuries to seven hospital staff members and causing casualties among dozens of Palestinians who were seeking medical aid.

Safadi emphasized the critical role of the field hospital, which has been in operation since 2009. He portrayed it as possibly one of the only remaining hospitals in northern Gaza providing essential services.

He said despite the challenges in maintaining the hospital’s operational status and ensuring a continuous supply of necessary medical equipment through weekly airdrops, Jordan remains committed to keeping this vital facility running for the thousands of Palestinians who rely on it due to the absence of other medical facilities in the region.

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In the meantime, a spokesperson for Gaza’s health ministry announced that the hospitals in the southern Gaza Strip, which borders Egypt in Rafah, were in no better shape than the other hospitals across the besieged Palestine territory.

Ashraf al-Qudra said hospitals could not provide proper health care due to the shortages. The occupant forces have cut water, power, fuel, food and medicine to Gaza.

He cited one of the hospitals saying because it has lost its resources and is about to run out of fuel, it will stop working

“The occupation displaced the medical staff, and some were killed or injured,” he said. “The hospital has also turned into a shelter, with scores of casualties in its corridors and yards.”

Al-Qudra urged for the allowing medical delegations to enter the Gaza Strip, evacuate those who are injured and establish field hospitals to tend to those in critical conditions, stressing the need to establish a “secure humanitarian corridor to deliver medical aid and fuel to Gaza's hospitals.”

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With a child being killed every 10 minutes in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli child-murdering regime is practically at war with children in the besieged territory.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said the number of civilians killed in Israel’s war on Gaza has been “unparalleled and unprecedented” since he took office in 2017.

Medical authorities in Gaza said on Tuesday that the death toll from the Israeli attacks on the enclave since Oct. 7 had reached more than 14,300. This includes upwards of 5,800 children.

Children make up virtually 47 percent of Gaza’s 2.3 million population. UNICEF has labeled the Gaza Strip “a graveyard for thousands of children.” It has also described the situation in Gaza as “a growing stain on our collective conscience”, calling the rate of children casualties “simply staggering.”

Save the Children says more children have been killed in Gaza than in all other conflicts around the world since 2019 combined.

In related news, Egypt received 28 premature infants from the Gaza Strip through the Rafah border crossing, Health Minister Khaled Abdel Ghaffar announced on Monday.

“Twenty-eight premature infants arrived today at the Rafah land port,” Abdel Ghaffar said that in a statement posted on the ministry's Facebook page.

Abdel Ghaffar said, “The infants are currently being transferred to hospitals equipped with medical teams and state-of-the-art facilities to provide the necessary medical services for them,” without providing further details.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society announced on Sunday that its teams evacuated 31 premature infants from Al-Shifa Hospital in northern Gaza to the Emirati Hospital in Rafah after being besieged by the Israeli army, forcing those present to evacuate.

The supervisor at the neonatal intensive care unit at the Emirati Hospital, Mohamed Salama, told the media earlier on Monday that “today, 28 premature infants out of the 31 who arrived at the hospital yesterday from Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza left to continue their treatment in Egypt.”

Salama noted that three infants remained in the hospital, with two of them staying at the request of their families for the stability of their health.

The Apartheid Zionist Israeli regime forces launched their relentless air and ground attacks on Gaza after the Palestinian resistance group on Oct. 7 in response to 7-decade intensifying atrocities by the occupant forces.

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