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BEYOND BORDERS:
HUMANITARIAN MISSIONS
AND UN PEACEKEEPING
The RJAF supports the JAF's humanitarian and Pakistan, Chechnya, Sudan, Bangladesh, Malaysia,
peacekeeping missions by providing air lift the Maldives and Indonesia.
services to task forces, using the C-130s.
RJAF planes also carry crews of field hospitals JAF
JAF has a long history of such missions, starting has set up in different countries, including Palestine
in 1961, when a force joined a UN mission to keep (Gaza and West Bank), Egypt, Lebanon, Afghanistan
peace on the Iraqi-Kuwaiti border. and Iran. These hospitals have treated more than 4
million people.
In 1989, a military observer team was dispatched
to Angola, followed by a series of international In total, Jordan has engaged in international peace
engagements in peacekeeping efforts, from and relief missions in 38 countries across the globe
East Timor in East Asia, to former Yugoslavia in and set up 20 field hospitals or clinics, including
Europe, to Ivory Coast, Liberia, Angola, DR Congo 10 that were operated simultaneously, while the
and Eritrea in Africa and Haiti in the Caribbean. Armed Forces once participated in 15 missions at
the same time.
Relief aid to victims of natural disasters and wars
has seen our soldiers and RJAF personnel fly to During deployments in peace keeping missions
Japan, Armenia, Turkey, Iran, oversees, a total of 20 men have fallen martyrs.
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