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Jordan's field hospital in Khan Younis has performed 7,000 operations
Graphic: Times of Palestine
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Of everything Arab states have promised Gaza, the Jordanian field hospital in Khan Younis is among the few things that can be counted in completed work rather than in pledges.
The Jordanian Armed Forces have run it since November 2023. In an account published by Arab News on 3 August, its surgical teams had by then performed more than 7,000 operations, and the hospital was receiving between 700 and 1,000 patients a day.
The amputation ward is the measure#
Since June the hospital has been taking ten to fifteen amputation cases a day. That is the number that says most about what the war left behind, and it is also the number that connects Amman's delivery to a gap inside Gaza that no convoy closes.
Roughly 300 prosthetic limbs have been fitted under the Restoring Hope Society campaign run on King Abdullah's directives, and more than 1,200 in total have been provided since 2024.
Set that beside a figure this paper reported yesterday: the World Health Organization's count of the prosthetists left in the Gaza Strip is eight, and roughly five thousand people in Gaza have lost a limb since October 2023, about a quarter of them children.
A limb fitted is a delivered fact. A prosthetist trained and equipped inside Gaza is the thing that outlasts the campaign, and it is not yet funded by anyone.
What is delivered, what is underway, what is still owed#
Delivered: the surgeries, the daily caseload, the limbs already fitted, and the convoys of specialised medicines, medical supplies and prosthetic equipment the Jordanian army has trucked to its hospitals in the Strip.
Underway: the Restoring Hope campaign, and the Khan Younis hospital's continuing daily caseload — the third the kingdom has run inside the Strip since the war began.
Still owed, and by more governments than Jordan: the components on the dual-use lists that stop a Gaza workshop making its own sockets, the training places for the prosthetists Gaza does not have, and the reconstruction money four Arab governments pledged at the launch of the World Bank-administered fund — at least $4.2 billion, of which the fund had taken in no deposits as of late May.
Jordan's hospitals are not a substitute for any of that. They are the part of the Arab commitment that has arrived, is running, and can be checked.
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