Jordan provided to take 2,000 sick Gaza youngsters, blames Israel for delays : NPR

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Salah Malkawi/Getty Pictures AMMAN, Jordan — The King Hussein Most cancers Heart is large and gleaming, with metal beams and floor-to-ceiling home windows. Cozy cafes and stocked snack machines dot the air-conditioned foyer. It is a stark distinction to situations in Gaza, from the place dozens of its newest sufferers have come.

"We could not discover meals and wherever we went there have been airstrikes," says Safa Salha, who spent months going from broken hospital to broken hospital, searching for remedy for her 16-year-old son Youssef.

Youssef, a tall, quiet teenager who lets his mom do a lot of the speaking, was in tenth grade earlier than the conflict between Israel and Hamas began in October 2023 and shut down all the faculties.

Final 12 months, he was operated on in Gaza for a mind tumor urgent down on his optic nerve. His mom says the hospital was unable to do MRI scans earlier than the surgical procedure and could not conduct a biopsy. Surgeons eliminated as a lot of the tumor as they may and despatched him residence two days later as a result of they wanted the mattress, his mom says.

"The toughest factor was the choice to do the surgical procedure," says Salha, a instructor and college actions organizer. "You do not know if the medical doctors had been going to have the ability to end the surgical procedure, you do not know if there's drugs obtainable, you do not know if he was going to die through the surgical procedure, or if we had been going to die whereas he was there."

Gaza well being care in ruins All of Gaza's hospitals have been both broken or destroyed in Israeli airstrikes. Israel says it has focused Hamas websites quite than civilian infrastructure.

In January, the medical assist group Docs With out Borders stated Israeli assaults had killed 1,000 well being care staff, a determine Gaza's Well being Ministry says has now grown to greater than 1,400. Resulting from an Israeli blockade on meals and drugs, hospitals which might be partially opening achieve this with extreme shortages of drugs, anesthesia and primary provides.

<img src="https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/5472x3648+0+0/resize/1100/quality/50/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fea%2Ffd%2F9dfab359451ca4b6dc5f489dd4ae%2Fgettyimages-2214314690.jpg" data-template="https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/5472x3648+0+0/resize/{width}/quality/{quality}/format/{format}/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fea%2Ffd%2F9dfab359451ca4b6dc5f489dd4ae%2Fgettyimages-2214314690.jpg" class="img" alt="An interior view of the destroyed European Hospital after Israeli army attack hit the hospital in Khan Yunis, Gaza on May 13, 2025." loading="lazy"/> An inside view of the destroyed European Hospital after Israeli military assault hit the hospital in Khan Yunis, Gaza on Might 13, 2025. Ali Jadallah/Anadolu by way of Getty Pictures conceal caption

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Ali Jadallah/Anadolu by way of Getty Pictures UNICEF says greater than 50,000 kids in Gaza have been killed or injured through the conflict, which started after the militant group Hamas launched a cross-border assault into Israel. Gaza's Well being Ministry says greater than 55,000 individuals, a lot of them ladies and youngsters, have died. Israel says almost 1,200 Israelis and foreigners had been killed within the preliminary Oct. 7, 2023, assault.

Israel this spring intensified its assaults and assist companies stated in March that greater than 12,000 individuals require pressing medical evacuation out of Gaza, together with at the very least 4,500 kids.

In February, President Trump recommended a plan to take over Gaza, displacing Palestinians to Jordan and Egypt whereas turning the enclave right into a U.S.-controlled zone that includes beach-front property. Many Palestinians in Gaza had been already displaced from their properties after the creation of Israel in 1948.

The relocation plan is seen by Jordan as an existential menace to the small kingdom, a loss of life knell for hopes of an eventual Palestinian state and tantamount to complicity in ethnic cleaning of Gaza.

The king pledges to assist 2,000 sick kids King Abdullah advised Trump that Jordan was ready to carry 2,000 youngster most cancers sufferers and different extraordinarily sick kids to Jordan for remedy as rapidly as attainable.

However virtually 4 months later, only some dozen sufferers have arrived.

<img src="https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/5129x3539+0+0/resize/1100/quality/50/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Ff1%2Fc2%2F9bee24814d03b0f538e703a35685%2Fgettyimages-2215100182.jpg" data-template="https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/5129x3539+0+0/resize/{width}/quality/{quality}/format/{format}/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Ff1%2Fc2%2F9bee24814d03b0f538e703a35685%2Fgettyimages-2215100182.jpg" class="img" alt="Young patients from Gaza near the King Hussein (Allenby) Bridge on May 14, after being evacuated by the Jordanian military for medical treatment in Jordan. Jordan's King Abdullah promised President Trump in February to bring in 2,000 children from Gaza for life-saving treatment." loading="lazy"/> Younger sufferers from Gaza close to the King Hussein (Allenby) Bridge on Might 14, after being evacuated by the Jordanian navy for medical remedy in Jordan. Jordan's King Abdullah promised President Trump in February to herald 2,000 kids from Gaza for life-saving remedy. Salah Malkawi/Getty Pictures conceal caption

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Salah Malkawi/Getty Pictures "There have been difficulties imposed by the Israeli authorities which might be stopping the way in which of constructing this occur easily," stated Mohammad al-Momani, Jordan's authorities communication minister.

Jordanian officers say Israel, which controls the Gaza border, has obstructed exit visas wanted for medical evacuations for some sufferers and guardians wanted to journey with them. It is a long-standing subject: Physicians for Human Rights in Israel has taken the Israeli authorities to court docket to attempt to drive them to permit extra sufferers out.

The Israeli navy didn't reply to NPR queries about obstructing exit visas. The United Nations' World Well being Group, which works with Israeli authorities and oversees logistics for medical evacuations, deferred remark to Israel.

Lethal delays Well being officers say delays in evacuations have meant diminished probabilities of survival for a few of the sickest kids, who elsewhere would obtain fast remedy.

"What we're seeing is absolutely specific to Gaza sufferers — they're extra superior ailments," says the King Hussein Most cancers Heart chief of pediatrics Rawad Rihani. "Instances the place the tumor could be very superior with the dearth of correct remedy and correct analysis, or correct analysis, which makes them very laborious to deal with."

<img src="https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/6000x4000+0+0/resize/1100/quality/50/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fab%2Fd3%2F0ced1eee48d4b8793131141f3d1b%2Fgettyimages-2219684502.jpg" data-template="https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/6000x4000+0+0/resize/{width}/quality/{quality}/format/{format}/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fab%2Fd3%2F0ced1eee48d4b8793131141f3d1b%2Fgettyimages-2219684502.jpg" class="img" alt="Pediatric patients evacuated from Gaza arrive for treatment at King Hussein Medical City in Amman on June 11." loading="lazy"/> Pediatric sufferers evacuated from Gaza arrive for remedy at King Hussein Medical Metropolis in Amman on June 11. Salah Malkawi/Getty Pictures conceal caption

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Salah Malkawi/Getty Pictures Rihani says a few of the tumors have grown so giant they've broken the youngsters's organs, leaving them in excruciating ache. With Israel's strict controls on meals and drugs coming into Gaza, lots of the sufferers are malnourished.

"These sufferers require intensive care unit assist, they require respiratory assist and so they require lots of dietary assist as effectively," she says. "It makes the tumor very troublesome to deal with."

Regardless that most childhood cancers are treatable, Rihani says, not the entire kids evacuated to Jordan survive.

"A few of them are very superior and went to palliative care," Rihani says. "Sadly we aren't capable of save everybody."

Jordan additionally operates two area hospitals in Gaza and was the main hall for assist going to the territory by truck and air earlier than Israel blocked assist shipments in March.

<img src="https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/8192x5464+0+0/resize/1100/quality/50/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F89%2Fa8%2F754fa08b464d811312dc7c8c0ab5%2Fgaza-npr-diegoibarra-011.jpeg" data-template="https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/8192x5464+0+0/resize/{width}/quality/{quality}/format/{format}/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F89%2Fa8%2F754fa08b464d811312dc7c8c0ab5%2Fgaza-npr-diegoibarra-011.jpeg" class="img" alt="The Royal Jordanian Air Force’s 8th Squadron unloads humanitarian aid at a helipad on the outskirts of Gaza, on Feb. 9." loading="lazy"/> The Royal Jordanian Air Power's eighth Squadron unloads humanitarian assist at a helipad on the outskirts of Gaza, on Feb. 9. Diego Ibarra Sánchez for NPR conceal caption

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Diego Ibarra Sánchez for NPR The King Hussein Most cancers Heart is without doubt one of the area's main most cancers hospitals. Rihani says it has 44 pediatric most cancers beds and 24 beds for pediatric bone marrow transplants, which might be supplemented by different hospitals that additionally deal with most cancers. A few of the arrivals require solely out-patient remedy.

Rihani says no most cancers sufferers handled in Jordan because the begin of the Gaza conflict have been despatched again to Gaza. Jordan has been criticized although for sending individuals again through the persevering with battle it says have absolutely accomplished remedy for different diseases.

"We're bringing them by batches," says Momani, the communications minister. "We are going to take these kids to deal with them however then after they end their remedy they need to be going again to their homeland. We do not wish to be in any means serving to the displacement of Palestinians."

Starvation stalking Gaza With so many obstacles, sufferers and their households who've been evacuated to Jordan and different nations are among the many very fortunate few.

Zainab al-Astal arrived in Jordan along with her sons Qassim, 15, and Ahmed, 13, in mid-Might. Each the boys have lymphoma.

Displaced repeatedly by Israeli airstrikes, there was hardly any meals, not even bread. Right here, Astal says Ahmed has been dazzled by the abundance of shawarma — a sandwich of sliced rooster roasted on a spit.

"He says he needs to sit down within the restaurant all day and simply preserve consuming," she says.

The day they had been evacuated from Gaza, the Astals had gathered with different sufferers and guardians close to a bus on the Gaza European Hospital to drive to the border when Israel bombed the complicated, based on sufferers and the World Well being Group. Gaza civil protection authorities say at the very least 28 individuals, together with sufferers, had been killed within the airstrikes.

Israel stated it was focusing on a Hamas command and management middle underneath the hospital. Israel launched footage displaying what it stated had been tunnels underneath the hospital complicated to bolster its declare, however the closely edited video couldn't be independently confirmed.

<img src="https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/6263x4176+0+0/resize/1100/quality/50/format/jpeg/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F5a%2F89%2Fc5bc16e34f118d9eaee4c5ac061d%2Fgettyimages-2159718553.jpg" data-template="https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/6263x4176+0+0/resize/{width}/quality/{quality}/format/{format}/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F5a%2F89%2Fc5bc16e34f118d9eaee4c5ac061d%2Fgettyimages-2159718553.jpg" class="img" alt="Patients are being evacuated from the European Hospital in Khan Younis to be transferred to Nasser Hospital, two of the few health centers operating in the Gaza Strip, on July 2, 2024." loading="lazy"/> Sufferers are being evacuated from the European Hospital in Khan Younis to be transferred to Nasser Hospital, two of the few well being facilities working within the Gaza Strip, on July 2, 2024. Abed Rahim Khatib/image alliance by way of Getty Pictures conceal caption

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Abed Rahim Khatib/image alliance by way of Getty Pictures "I knew it was going to land close to us however I could not transfer," says Astal. She says the impression threw the boys within the air and rained down a lot particles she could not see for 10 minutes.

Strangers threw themselves on the bottom over the boys to guard them, she says.

The youngsters themselves converse very matter-of-factly in regards to the bombings.

Leen al-Dabbas, a scientific psychologist on the most cancers middle, says lots of the kids are affected by "masked melancholy" — not but capable of course of what they have been by means of.

"After they first arrive they're in an adjustment interval," she says.

For a lot of households the worry for their very own lives has been changed by relentless fear over family members they left behind in Gaza.

One lady, Suhair Zouroub, 13, sits along with her mom Shayma' and youthful brother, a blue hospital bracelet on her skinny wrist, forward of her first rounds of chemotherapy.

She was recognized two months in the past with leukemia. When she suffered seizures in Gaza, there was no remedy obtainable. She describes huddling along with the entire household, hugging one another through the airstrikes. Her 2-1/2-year-old brother, Jude, pipes up with the phrase tiyara, Arabic for "airplane."

The eighth-grader had a 98% grade level common and says she needs to be a global lawyer.

"It's extremely good right here," she says in a quiet voice. "However Gaza is extra lovely. Nothing can ever be like residence."

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