Ahmad is among 2,000 Palestinian children who will be evacuated from Gaza in coming weeks and months, taken to Jordan for desperately needed medical treatment. The children being evacuated for medical treatment range from babies to teenagers.

Jordan on Tuesday evacuated the first group of Palestinian children in need of medical treatment from the war-battered Gaza Strip under a plan the king presented to US President Donald Trump last month.

Since the early days of his presidency, Donald Trump has pledged to transform the Gaza Strip into an American protectorate, in order to restore the region

DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Foreign ministers from Muslim nations on Saturday rejected calls by U.S. President Donald Trump to empty the Gaza Strip of its Palestinian population and backed a plan for an administrative committee of Palestinians to govern the territory to allow reconstruction to go ahead.

Leaders across the Middle East have come under significant pressure to come up with a workable blueprint for reconstructing, securing, and governing Gaza at a time when the Israel-Hamas ceasefire is teetering and Israel, buoyed by Trump’s backing, increasingly appears to hold the upper hand in negotiations.

Israel’s cutoff of food, fuel, medicine and other supplies to Gaza’s 2 million people has sent prices soaring and humanitarian groups into overdrive as they try to distribute dwindling stocks to the most vulnerable.

Arab leaders meeting in Egypt are set to approve a counterproposal to President Donald Trump’s call for the Gaza Strip to be depopulated and transformed into a beach destination.

Twenty-nine sick children from Gaza have arrived in Jordan for emergency specialist ... has agreed to take from the war-torn Gaza Strip and include amputees, babies with heart defects and children ...