Ammon News -

The Jordan Hashemite Charity Organization(JHCO) expressed its astonishment and rejection of a London-based website publishing misleading material containing lies and slander about Jordan's humanitarian and relief efforts to the Gaza Strip since late 2023.

The English-language news website had requested answers to questions at the end this day and the questions were biased, accusatory, and based on what it called allegations, JHCO’s media office said.

The site requested answers to these questions within 3 hours, JHCO explained.

Also, the media office indicated that donations made to the organization reached the people in the Gaza Strip without any deductions of any costs or fees.

Regarding the financial costs, the JHCO’s media office indicated that Jordan bore the costs of the land convoys, airdrops, airlifts, and aircraft sent via Egypt’s El-Arish airport, before several countries and organizations requested to participate in these relief efforts.

 

The website's mendacious assertion that Jordan was profiteering from these operations is a shameful and reprehensible fabrication. Such a claim is unconscionable, and the published report is utterly devoid of integrity and credibility, betraying a fundamental lack of due diligence and professionalism by the website that disseminated these falsehoods.

Regarding the air bridge (which supplemented free-fall airdrops), 102 aircraft transported relief materials, with Jordan bearing these costs. Italy also contributed 11 aircraft from its armed forces.

The total weight of materials transported via this air bridge reached approximately 122 tons, with financial costs being lower than those for airdrops.

As for land convoys, Jordan bore the full expense for all convoys it dispatched, particularly during the initial months of the war on Gaza. Subsequently, numerous countries and international organizations joined these efforts, requesting to participate and covering their respective contributions.

These operations were conducted under transparent international standards, subject to rigorous and clear monitoring, with documented proof of delivery. The cost per truck amounted to $2,200, covering only insurance, operational, maintenance, and fuel allowances.

The Media Office revealed that the direct costs borne by Jordan to support our brethren in Gaza amount to tens of millions of dollars, while indirect costs to the Jordanian state reach hundreds of millions.

In light of these colossal figures and the immense tragedy afflicting our brethren, it is utterly shameful and a blatant lie to suggest, as the website did in its disgraceful report, that Jordan is profiteering by mere hundreds of thousands of dollars.

The Media Office also highlighted the presence of two Jordanian field hospitals, a prosthetic limb clinic, and a mobile bakery within the Gaza Strip, in addition to a hospital in Nablus and two medical treatment stations in Ramallah and Jenin.

The JHCO Media Office affirmed its resolute intention to pursue legal action against the website for the baseless rumors, accusatory assertions, and misleading information it published. Furthermore, it will track and hold accountable all who circulated and amplified these falsehoods.

The Jordan Hashemite Charity Organization firmly asserts that such reports cannot obscure the irrefutable facts that unequivocally point to Jordan's unwavering and principled historic and humanitarian stance a stance cherished by every Jordanian, Arab, and indeed every person of integrity.

This campaign of falsification and distortion, as perpetrated by the website, will neither be accepted nor met with silence. If this website was genuinely concerned for the people in Gaza, its priority should have been to highlight these extensive efforts and the sacrifices made by the Jordanian people for their brethren in Palestine, rather than launching despicable attempts to defame Jordan's image for malicious and deceptive ends.

The media office noted that Jordan had borne all the financial costs related to the purely Jordanian airdrops, which were 125, while sister and friendly countries borne the costs of the airdrops in which they requested to participate, which numbered 266.

The airdrops cost more than what the mentioned website reported, the media office stated, adding that the cost of a free-fall airdrop was approximately $210,000, while the cost of a GPS-guided airdrop was $450,000.

The JHCO explained that the details of these financial costs are fully documented by the countries and international organizations that participated in the operation.