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‘We wish we could have taken more’: 29 kids evacuated from Gaza to Jordan for remedy

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A sluggish convoy of a dozen ambulances and buses introduced 25 wounded and sick Palestinian kids from Gaza and throughout Israel on Tuesday, previous the closely armed forces that bombarded the territory for 15 months, and which may be about to begin once more.

The sufferers had been among the many 4,500 folks in Gaza believed by the World Well being Group (WHO) to be in pressing want of evacuation, they usually had been transferred to Jordan by a joint operation by the Jordanian military, the nation’s well being ministry and the WHO.

The journey began on the Kerem Shalom crossing, which was the primary portal of entry for humanitarian help by a lot of the struggle, and in the course of the six-week ceasefire that adopted.

Now that Benjamin Netanyahu has lower off all help from getting into Gaza, Kerem Shalom is all however abandoned. The big automotive park, previously filled with help vehicles, was empty on Tuesday, aside from just a few troopers and the Jordanian guests.

Kids from Gaza arrive in Jordan for medical remedy – video

4 Jordanian air power helicopters landed on an apron of asphalt, to fly 4 kids in significantly vital situation to Amman for emergency care. The remaining 25 got here out in massive ambulances, together with buses for his or her dad and mom, guardians and younger siblings.

They drove up from the southern tip the place Gaza, Israel and Egypt meet, and thru the realm of kibbutzes and farmland the place the struggle began on 7 October 2023 with a shock and ferocious assault by Hamas on the agricultural neighborhood, through which Palestinian militants killed 1,200 Israelis, principally civilians.

The convoy headed north previous strains of Merkava tanks and their troops, who’ve been ordered to take a heightened state of readiness for struggle because the ceasefire stalled on the finish of its first six-week part.

The motorcade climbed up the hills to Jerusalem after which down the steep descent by the occupied West Financial institution into the Jordan valley, lastly skirting its manner round a protracted line of vehicles and automobiles that had constructed up when the Israeli immigration service staff went on a brief strike for a part of the morning.

By the point the kids and their dad and mom arrived in Jordan, the solar had gone down they usually had been exhausted, the lengthy day encased within the ambulances made extra tiring by the Ramadan quick.

Ahlam Darwish had introduced her 16-month-old boy, Malik, who had been hit within the eye throughout an Israeli bombardment. They had been from the al-Shati camp in northern Gaza, however Malik had been injured after they’d been displaced by the struggle and the household was staying in a tent. Ahlam mentioned a fraction from a tent pole had lodged in his eye and he wanted pressing surgical procedure.

By the point the kids and their dad and mom arrived in Jordan, the solar had gone down they usually had been exhausted. {Photograph}: Alaa Al Sukhni/Reuters

Surgical procedure will not be an possibility in Gaza, the place about 80% of hospitals and clinics have been destroyed, and 1,000 docs, nurses and different medical staff have been killed.

“Nothing was possible in Gaza,” Ahlam mentioned, attempting to maintain her exhausted, squirming little one in her lap. Life had begun to enhance regularly over the six weeks of the ceasefire, however Netanyahu’s blockade imposed on Sunday immediately triggered a doubling within the value of flour and sugar, and together with it, the dread of renewed bombing.

Seven-year-old Nada was swinging her legs off the again of one other ambulance, respiration within the cool evening air after a stifling day of driving. She was born with a gap in her coronary heart and her well being had been deteriorating steadily in current months.

Her mom, who didn’t give her title, heard final Friday that Nada was on the listing of medical evacuees, however from then to the second the ambulances arrived in Jordan, the journey was unsure.

“Everybody in Gaza just needs to know what their future will be. Whether we will be able to rebuild, and go back to life,” she mentioned.

“Nada will get the care she needs here, that would have been impossible in Gaza,” mentioned Tariq al-Hamdan, an emergency room medic from Amman’s King Hussein hospital. The convoy had first set out from Amman at 4am, and had spent lengthy durations of time on the border the place the paperwork was scrutinised, however he was nonetheless elated that the mission had lastly succeeded after a collection of postponements and the uncertainty introduced by the blockade.

“We just wish we could have taken more children,” al-Hamdan mentioned.

The Jordanian authorities’s plan is to evacuate 2,000 of Gaza’s little one sufferers in vital situation, so Tuesday’s operation was solely a really small step in that path. Underneath the settlement with Israel, the subsequent group of kids can solely be evacuated as soon as this group has been handled and returned to Gaza. By that point there isn’t any assure the struggle won’t have returned.

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