Jordanian source refutes misleading report by Times of Israel on Gaza mobile bakery

By JT - Jan 17,2025 - Last updated at Jan 17,2025

Truck carries a mobile bakery which Jordan sends to Gaza on December 24 under Royal directives (JT file)

AMMAN — A Jordanian source on Thursday refuted as false a report by The Times of Israel dated 14 January 2025 under the headline ‘Mobile bakery, operated by COGAT and World Central Kitchen, producing 3,000 loaves of bread per hour’.

The source said the mobile bakery mentioned in the report was dispatched from Jordan to Gaza on December 24, 2024, as a joint project between the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the World Central Kitchen (WCK).

The source told The Jordan Times that production of bread through this bakery has not started yet due to logistical and supplies restrictions imposed by Israeli authorities. The mobile bakery is aimed at alleviating the suffering of the people of Gaza caused by the war.

The Times of Israel report quoted a COGAT statement claiming that a mobile bakery, operated by WCK, in coordination with Israel’s Coordinated Office of Government Activity in the Territories, has begun operations in the Khan Younis area in southern Gaza, and “is producing over 3,000 loaves of bread per hour”.

“This mobile bakery is a pure Jordanian initiative in collaboration with WCK”, stressed the source.

The mobile bakery, with a production capacity of 3,500 loaves of bread per hour, is part of Jordan's ongoing efforts to provide humanitarian, relief and medical aid to Gaza through all means possible, by land and air.

WCK said in a blog posted on its website that the mobile bakery is a donation from Jordan to WCK. It crossed the Sheikh Hussein Bridge at the end of December after diligent collaboration and configuration.

“It took more than three months of coordination to get the truck inside Gaza,” said WCK’s Jordanian Relations Coordinator Marwa. “The Jordanian government and WCK team were all keen to make this happen. Everyone is excited to see it operational.”

WCK looks forward to future collaboration with Jordan that will help us meet as much need as possible in Gaza, the US-based NGO said in the blog.

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