After weeks of enduring a vicious bombing campaign, some dual nationals and severely wounded Palestinians were allowed to leave Gaza through the Rafah border crossing into Egypt.
An Egyptian official told CNN that 361 foreign passport holders and 81 severely wounded Palestinians entered Egypt through the Rafah crossing on Wednesday. The official said among the foreign nationals are citizens of Austria, the United Kingdom, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Italy, and Japan.
The State Department has estimated that 400 American citizens are trapped in Gaza, but it’s not clear how many got out on Wednesday. According to AP, the White House only expected a “handful” of Americans to be among the people who got out. According to CNN, two American physicians entered Egypt on Wednesday.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken and his State Department previously said the only thing preventing Americans from leaving Gaza was Hamas, but sources told CNN that a diplomatic agreement was worked out between Israel, Egypt, and Hamas to allow people to cross the border.
According to messages reviewed by ABC News, US officials had told an American citizen stuck in Gaza that there was more than one issue preventing them from leaving despite Blinken’s claim. “There’s more than one sticking point. We need Egypt, Israel, and the DFA (De Facto Authorities) to all agree,” a senior State Department official said in an email on October 21.
This is really good news……..
“There’s more than one sticking point.” To me, the most “sticky point” is all the blood spilled from Palestinian civilians must be really sticky. …Actually, I now understand why the Israelis want to “Ethnically Cleans” Gaza? Palestinian blood is too sticky.
People are dying in large numbers and you attempt to make a joke? How sad.
Himmler and other military associates made comments about Jewish blood in the Warsaw Ghettos. Seems that the Zionists share the same bloodlust as there WW2 brethren eh..
Who held this up in the first place?
Anybody who leaves Gaza will likely never see Palestine ever again.
That is exactly what the plan is. A second Nakba, with remaining Palestinians forced into the Sinai desert. To die. Their holocaust. We, taxpayers here in the U.S. of Atrocity will assist in rebuilding, not for Palestinians, but for Jewish settlers. It will have all the wonders for them to have carefree lives, the young having their rave concerts on the sabbath. Parks, clean homes, lawns, clean roads. It will be wonderful. What occurred will be forgotten, a footnote in history books. Just forgotten.