The Jordan Hashemite Charity Organization expressed its astonishment and rejection of a London-based website publishing misleading material containing lies and slander about Jordan's humanitarian and relief efforts since late 2023 to support the people of the Gaza Strip.

The Commission's media office said that the English-language news website had requested answers to questions at the end of Thursday's business day. The questions were biased, accusatory, and based on what it called "allegations."

He explained that the website requested answers to these questions within 3 hours, which suggests that there was a deliberate intention to publish this material without any response with the aim of distorting Jordan's image and harming its role. He explained that the purpose of his question to the Commission was to make the reader feel that he is neutral, honest and objective, knowing that those in charge of the website know that such questions require time to prepare for the purposes of accuracy, transparency and clarity, as the questions were open and accusatory regarding a multi-media relief effort, and it is not possible to isolate one of the efforts and mislead readers with false information.

The media office indicated that donations made to the organization reached the people in the Gaza Strip without any deductions of any costs or fees.

Regarding the financial costs, the media office explained that Jordan bore the costs of the land convoys, airdrops, airlifts, and aircraft sent via Arish, before several countries and organizations requested to participate in these relief efforts.

Regarding the costs related to the airdrops, the media office noted that Jordan had borne all the financial costs related to the purely Jordanian airdrops, which numbered (125 airdrops), while sister and friendly countries bore the costs of the airdrops in which they requested to participate, which numbered (266). These numbers were announced after each airdrop operation, in which the participating countries were specified.

The media office of the Jordanian Hashemite Charity Organization confirmed that the airdrops cost more than what the news website reported. The cost of a free-fall airdrop was approximately $210,000, while the cost of a GPS-guided airdrop was $450,000. The organization explained that the details of these financial costs are fully documented by the countries and international organizations that participated in the operation.

He explained that these figures only cover the cost of a single airdrop, and that the website's false claim that Jordan was profiting from the operation is shameful and a reprehensible slander. No one can claim this, and what was published lacks integrity, credibility, and the accuracy and professionalism of the website that spread its lies.

As for the airlift (in addition to the free drops), the number of aircraft that transported relief supplies reached 102 aircraft, the costs of which were borne by Jordan, while Italy participated with 11 aircraft of its armed forces. The total weight of the supplies transported via the airlift reached approximately 122 tons, and the financial costs were less than the airdrops.

Regarding the land convoys, Jordan covered all the convoys it sent, especially in the first months of the war on Gaza, before several countries and international organizations stepped in and requested to participate in the aid. Jordan covered the costs of their participation, which was conducted within transparent international standards, strict and clear oversight, and documented receipts. The cost of one truck reached $2,200, including only insurance, operating and maintenance fees, and fuel.

The media office reported that the direct costs borne by Jordan to support its brothers in Gaza amount to tens of millions, while the indirect costs to the Jordanian state amount to hundreds of millions. In light of these figures and the tragedy affecting our brothers, it is shameful and a lie to talk about hundreds of thousands of dollars being profited from, as the website claimed in its shameful report.

The media office stated that there are two Jordanian hospitals, a prosthetics clinic, and a mobile bakery in the Gaza Strip, in addition to a hospital in Nablus and two medical treatment centers in Ramallah and Jenin. If the website was keen on the people there, it would have been better off focusing on all these efforts to highlight them and the costs that the Jordanian people provide to their people in Palestine, rather than making pathetic attempts to distort Jordan's image for offensive and misleading purposes.

The media office of the Jordanian Hashemite Charity Organization stressed its intention to pursue the website legally for the rumours and accusatory and misleading information it published, and to pursue anyone who circulated or transmitted these lies.

The Hashemite Charity Commission affirms that these reports cannot cover up the obvious facts, which clearly point to Jordan's lofty historical and humanitarian stance, which every Jordanian, Arab, and honorable person is proud of. It is neither acceptable nor possible to remain silent about this falsification and distortion practiced by the website.