King of Jordan Abdullah II ibn Al Hussein and U.S. President Joe Biden for a photo after the King's arrival on the North Portico of the White House on Feb. 12, 2024 in Washington, DC. The King of Jordan is visiting the Nation's capital as part of his yearly visit amidst ongoing hostage negotiations between Hamas and Israel and after a strike killed three US soldiers at a military base in northeast Jordan. (Credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images/AFP)
Jordanian King Abdullah II recently took part in a humanitarian aid drop into war-torn Gaza, according to state TV footage showing him abord an air force C-130 transport plane.
The king can be seen on board the flight in military uniform, in the 56-second video broadcast on Jordan's Al Mamlaka channel on Monday.
He was helping soldiers drop a crate said to contain humanitarian and medical aid bound for the Jordanian field hospital in northern Gaza, in a joint operation with the Netherlands.
In mid-December, King Abdullah's daughter, Princess Salma, a first lieutenant and pilot in the Royal Jordanian Air Force, also took part in an airdrop of medical supplies to the field hospital.
On Nov. 20, Jordanian Crown Prince Hussein arrived at Egypt's El-Arish airport near Gaza to supervise the delivery of the second Jordanian field hospital to the besieged Palestinian territory.
US President Joe Biden thanked Jordan for providing humanitarian aid, during a White House meeting Monday where the king appealed for a full ceasefire to end the war in Gaza.
Abdullah "personally got in a plane and helped conduct an airdrop of urgently needed medical supplies into Gaza," Biden said.
"I understand that two of his children have also joined those airdrops. They helped fly humanitarian supplies in."
Jordan has conducted 11 airdrop operations since the war broke out on October 7 between Israel and Hamas militants in the besieged Gaza Strip.
Amman has delivered a total of almost 720 tonnes of humanitarian aid from 49 aircraft, 11 of them via airdrops, according to the Jordanian Royal Charity Commission.
325 Jordanian trucks also delivered a total of 4,376 tonnes of aid by land, according to the Commission.
Jordanian King Abdullah II recently took part in a humanitarian aid drop into war-torn Gaza, according to state TV footage showing him abord an air force C-130 transport plane.
The king can be seen on board the flight in military uniform, in the 56-second video broadcast on Jordan's Al Mamlaka channel on Monday.
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