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AMMAN — The Jordan Hashemite Charity Organisation (JHCO) has said that its warehouses currently hold 10,000 truckloads of humanitarian and food aid ready for delivery to Gaza.
JHCO Secretary General Hussein Shibli told public service broadcaster Al Mamlaka TV that the King Hussein Bridge remains closed on the Gaza side following a recent incident at the crossing, but expressed hope that it would reopen in the coming days.
Shibli said the organisation continues to work with partners to provide assistance through food parcels, hot meal initiatives, and clean water supplies.
He added that the suspension period has been used to coordinate with UN partners to secure “sufficient” quantities of aid, stressing that JHCO stands ready to resume deliveries as soon as the bridge reopens.
Jordan operates two military field hospitals in Gaza. The first, in the north, was established in 2009 following the 2008 war, while the second, in Khan Younis in the south, was set up in November 2023 amid the Israeli military campaign that began on October 7, 2023. In addition, Jordan established a field hospital in Nablus in late November 2023.
In cooperation with the World Central Kitchen, the Kingdom also deployed a mobile bakery in Gaza with a production capacity of 3,500 loaves of bread per hour.
Other humanitarian programmes include the land bridge for aid delivery, the Restoring Hope Initiative which provides prosthetics for amputees, and the evacuation of critical cases to Jordanian hospitals.
