Jordan’s mobile bakery becomes Gaza’s only source of bread

AMMAN — Amid acute flour shortages and the widespread closure of bakeries in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, Jordan’s mobile bakery has emerged as the sole provider of bread to local communities, according to World Central Kitchen (WCK).

Deployed to Gaza on December 24, 2024, following Royal directives, the mobile bakery was launched to help alleviate the escalating humanitarian crisis caused by the ongoing conflict. It operates in coordination with WCK, a global humanitarian organisation that delivers food aid to communities affected by disasters and conflict.

Currently stationed in central Gaza, the bakery has a production capacity of around 3,500 loaves per hour, exceeding 75,000 loaves per day.

The bakery forms part of Jordan’s comprehensive humanitarian response to the crisis in Gaza, which includes the delivery of food, medical, and relief supplies by land and air.

Jordan also runs two military field hospitals in Gaza, one in the Strip's north, which was established in 2009 following the war in 2008.

The second was established in Khan Younis in the south in November 2023 at the peak of the Israeli war of aggression on the coastal enclave that erupted on October 7, 2023.

Besides the field hospitals in Gaza, the Jordan Armed Forces-Arab Army (JAF) established the Jordanian field hospital in Nablus in late November 2023.