In response to the rapidly worsening humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, the World Health Organization (WHO) requested support from the European Union Civil Protection Mechanism (UCPM) to evacuate severely injured patients to hospitals across Europe where they could receive life‑saving medical care.

The scale of needs inside Gaza—combined with the collapse of medical services—required fast, coordinated international action.

Luxembourg, through emergency.lu, responded promptly by making available specialised air medical evacuation (Medevac) capabilities. Working closely with the European Commission’s DG ECHO and the Emergency Response Coordination Centre (ERCC), Luxembourg organized the air evacuation of two Gaza patients and two accompanying relatives from Bucharest to Luxembourg, operated by Luxembourg Air Ambulance (LAA).

This mission formed part of a jointly financed EU operation under the UCPM and ECHO, designed to ensure that critically wounded individuals could be stabilised and rapidly transferred to European medical facilities.

Luxembourg’s contribution—leveraging national Medevac assets, coordination expertise and humanitarian presence—helped enable the safe transport of vulnerable patients requiring urgent treatment unavailable in the conflict zone.