| Those would be dual citizens who chose to be there rather than kidnapped hostages, I assume. |
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about
oppressionand
disproportionate response...
without a way out as Hamas
...not a terrorist organization, even though it kidnaps people, holds hostages, and tries to negotiate by executing them,...
Death Eaters refuse to open the region’s main exit route into Egypt, Secretary of State Antony Blinken
...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm...told the Senate Appropriations Committee Tuesday.
The figure was revealed by America’s top diplomat the same day the State Department operated its final evacuation charter flight out of Israel.
Hamas has refused to let anyone seeking to leave its territory through the Rafah crossing, where Israeli officials had told Gazooks to flee to avoid its burgeoning ground offensive.
Among those caught in the middle are about 400 Americans and their families — about 1,000 people in all, Blinken said, as well as an estimated 5,000 citizens from other countries.
| Good to know. |
Blinken added that his department was "focused on this intensively" and working with regional partners to hash out a way to get the US citizens out of Gaza.
"We’ve not yet found a way to get them out through whatever place and by whatever means that Hamas is not blocking, but we’re working that with intermediaries," he said.