BBC joins injured Gazan children as they arrive in Jordan

The BBC's Fergal Keane accompanies children being evacuated from Gaza on their journey to Jordan.

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We were over the suburbs of Amman when Safa'a Salha held up her mobile phone so that I could read a message she'd written.

"Oh my God," this Gaza mother wrote, "Jordan is so beautiful."

The evacuees had come to the Jordanian border by road. I joined them there for the final part of the journey by helicopter to Amman.

Safa'a spoke very little English, and in any case the noise of the helicopter made it impossible to converse.