Six children from Gaza arrive in Catalonia for medical care.

BarcelonaSix Palestinian minors sick or injured in the attacks in the Gaza Strip They landed this Thursday at the Zaragoza air base, accompanied by their families, to receive medical care in hospitals in Catalonia. They are part of a group of thirteen minors and one adult, as well as 44 accompanying family members, who will be treated in hospitals in Catalonia but also in the Basque Country, Navarre, and Asturias.

The Vall d'Hebron University Hospital in Barcelona will treat three of the children: a four-year-old girl with complete transposition of the great arteries, a five-month-old boy with left cardiac enlargement, and a four-year-old boy with pulmonary atresia. This center has already been hosting four other patients from the Palestinian territories for months, of whom one remains hospitalized and three are receiving outpatient treatment. This is the fourth operation of its kind organized by the Spanish Ministry of Health, in which a total of 43 minors and nearly one hundred family members have already been transferred.

For its part, the San Juan de Dios Hospital in Barcelona will treat a five-year-old boy with congenital heart disease and a nine-year-old boy with medulloblastoma, according to the Catalan Ministry of Health. The third hospital participating in the care of these children will be the Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital in Badalona, where a nine-year-old girl will be admitted with multiple injuries and multiple shrapnel wounds and fractures.

All of these children come from the Gaza Strip, but have been evacuated by the Spanish government from Amman to Jordan, where they had been transferred due to illness or injuries in one of the very exceptional medical evacuations authorized for Israel, organized by the World Health Organization (WHO). They spent a day there, in health centers and temporary accommodations managed by Doctors Without Borders and the Spanish Embassy in Jordan, where each patient was evaluated and clinically stabilized before being transferred to Spain.

The trip to Spain for these thirteen minors and their families was carried out on an Air Force plane, in an operation managed by the Ministry of Defense. Upon arrival in Zaragoza, the patients and their families were transferred, with the collaboration of the Red Cross, to the assigned hospitals: six minors in Catalonia, five in the Basque Country, one in Navarre, and one in Asturias.