Overview
- Two Spanish Air and Space Force aircraft carrying 19 gravely ill or injured children and 73 companions landed at Torrejón air base before dawn on 27 October.
- The patients were handed over at the Israel–Jordan border to a Spanish medical team led in Amman by Health Minister Mónica García, with logistics supported by WHO, the EU ERCC and MSF.
- The children are being assigned to hospitals across eight regions—Castilla-La Mancha, Asturias, Castilla y León, Euskadi, Navarra, Murcia, Aragón and Catalonia—based on clinical needs.
- Diagnoses include trauma from attacks, oncology and hematology cases, congenital heart disease, neurological, ophthalmological and nephrological conditions, plus one gastrointestinal case.
- Family reception, lodging and psychosocial-legal support are arranged by the Ministry of Inclusion with NGO Accem, while INGESA coordinates clinical placement; regional examples include treatment in Burgos, Euskadi and Murcia.