{"id":2088603,"date":"2023-11-02T21:09:02","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T01:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/400-americans-authorized-to-leave-gaza\/"},"modified":"2023-11-02T21:11:07","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T01:11:07","slug":"400-americans-authorized-to-leave-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/400-americans-authorized-to-leave-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"400 Americans given permission to depart Gaza."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2F400-americans-authorized-to-leave-gaza%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2088603&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Palestinians \u200cwait to cross\u200d into Egypt at Rafah, Gaza \u200dStrip, on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023. (AP Photo\/Fatima Shbair)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>OAN\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/tag\/elizabeth-volberding\">Elizabeth Volberding<br \/><\/a>6:00 PM \u2013 Thursday, November 2, 2023<\/h2>\n<p>Around 400\u2062 United States citizens have been approved to leave Gaza through the\u200c Rafah border with\u200b Egypt, along with hundreds more civilians.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-3\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px; text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-3'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, 400 Americans will now have the ability to\u200c leave Gaza as the \u200dIsrael-Hamas conflict continues.<\/p>\n<p>This marks the first major \u200ddeparture of civilians\u200c from the Gaza Strip since\u200b the conflict between Israel and the terrorist group Hamas broke \u200bout on October 7<sup>th<\/sup>. The evacuation will reportedly allow around 400 Americans and other foreign passport holders to leave\u2063 the region this\u200d week.<\/p>\n<p>State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller announced on Wednesday that the\u200d department\u2064 has been in contact with approximately 400 Americans who\u200c have \u201cexpressed their desire\u2063 to leave.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Miller added that with their \u200dfamily members included, the total \u2062amount is at about 1,000.<\/p>\n<p>Along with Americans, there are many people \u200dfrom Mexico, Hungary, Croatia, South Korea, Azerbaijan, Greece, Chad, Bahrain, Italy, Switzerland, North \u2063Macedonia, Sri\u200d Lanka, the Netherlands, and \u2064Belgium. <\/p>\n<p>The\u200b department has \u200cbeen in the process of assigning \u2064U.S. citizens\u2062 that are in \u2063Gaza with \u200dspecific departure dates and\u200c times. Authorities stated that \u200cthey will inform those \u200cin Gaza who have been in recent communication with the department. <\/p>\n<p>Those crossing over the border gates consisted of 335 foreign passport holders, mostly \u200bPalestinian dual nationals and some\u2063 foreigners, 76 critically injured\u200b patients headed for Egyptian hospitals, and staff members from aid \u200borganizations like \u200dDoctors\u200b Without Borders, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and the United\u2063 Nations agency for Palestinian refugees.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. citizens who\u2064 spoke with \u2062reporters shared that they are both <strong>\u201chappy \u200cand exhausted\u201d<\/strong> \u200dto\u200c have the\u2064 ability to leave the Gaza \u200cStrip after almost\u2063 a month of attacks and bombardments, but they are also frightened for\u200d family and loved ones who will be \u200bleft behind.<\/p>\n<p>Haneen Okal, a mother of three, is\u200c listed as one \u200dof the American\u2064 passport holders that have been \u200cauthorized to leave Gaza.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cWe can\u2019t describe our feelings of getting evacuated,\u201d Okal told reporters as she waited at the Rafah border crossing \u2062on \u200dThursday. \u201cBut we\u2019re still sad because \u2064of what\u2019s\u200b happening in Gaza. The war \u2063is still there.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cI\u2062 left my two sisters, my two brothers, and my mom and\u2064 my dad,\u201d \u200cOkal added. \u201cMy mom and my dad do have American citizenship, but they don\u2019t want\u200b to leave my other\u2062 family members, so hopefully we can get them all \u200dout of there as soon\u200c as we\u2064 can. It\u2019s a disaster. \u2062There is\u200d a lack \u2063of food, electricity, power, no internet in there, bombing is all over. It\u2019s not safe at \u2064all. I don\u2019t know\u200d when this\u200b situation will end, but it\u2019s\u200d really a disaster there.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Additionally, Pediatrician Dr. Barbara Zind of Grand Junction, Colorado, traveled to \u200bGaza as part of a humanitarian mission in early October. However, she was \u2063stranded there for almost a month due to the ongoing war. <\/p>\n<p>When she was finally able to\u2063 cross the Rafah border, \u2064she described it\u2064 as a <strong>\u201cchaotic\u201d<\/strong> process.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cThere was chaos at\u200b the\u2063 first\u200c door where\u200b people were asked to wait \u200bto listen for their \u200dname to be called,\u201d Zind \u200dsaid. \u201cAnd then \u2062you\u2062 go into \u2064this other waiting room, and there was\u2063 just chaos.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Additionally, \u200bZind stated that it took\u2062 almost \u200b12 \u2064hours for her\u2063 and her colleagues to leave\u2062 Gaza and have the ability to cross into Egypt. Zind is\u2062 planning \u200cto fly home on\u2064 Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, a family from Massachusetts managed\u2062 to leave Gaza. Abood Okal, his spouse Wafaa Abuzayda, and their 1-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/400-americans-authorized-to-leave-gaza\/\" title=\"400 Americans given permission to depart Gaza.\">child encountered \u2064difficulties finding clean drinking water<\/a> and were turned away on multiple occasions after\u200c attempting to depart from the region.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re\u2064 very happy to make it out,\u201d Boston\u2064 attorney Sammy Nabulsi said in support of the family. \u201cThey\u2019re exhausted. They\u2019re \u2064drained, they\u2019re emotionally and physically drained.\u2062 They\u2019re also worried. They still have family behind in Gaza.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The United States\u200c has declared \u2064that Hamas is to blame for not allowing civilians to leave Gaza, claiming that the terrorist organization intended to use the civilians as <strong>\u201chuman shields.\u201d<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>The humanitarian crisis in Gaza is intensifying due to limited access to fuel,\u200d water, and \u200dmedical supplies, prompting \u2064a growing worry for the\u200d United Nations and\u200c other\u200b organizations that work in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Stay informed! Receive breaking news \u2062blasts directly to your inbox for free. Subscribe here. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts\">https:\/\/www.oann.com\/alerts<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"rc-widget-10bad2\" data-rc-widget data-widget-host=\"habitat\" data-endpoint=\"\/\/trends.revcontent.com\" data-widget-id=\"278641\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"dpsp-share-text\" style=\"margin-bottom:10px\"> \t\t \t\tShare this post!\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h3>In the summer of 2020, the Black\u2062 Lives Matter movement garnered national attention.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h3>House GOP leadership outlines agenda priorities with \u200ba new speaker at the helm.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h3>Ohio voters cast their ballots \u2064here the results could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ohio-voters-cast-their-ballots-where-results-could-change-abortion-access\/\" title=\"Ohio voters decide on abortion access.\">change state-wide abortion access<\/a>.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h3>Thousands of people are \u200cexpected to attend\u200b a\u2063 Free Palestine march in D.C. on\u200d Saturday, Nov 4th.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h3>PayPal added nearly $4 billion to its market value\u200d after\u200d a pledge to turn \u201cleaner\u201d fired up \u2064investors.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h3>China\u2019s\u2062 most popular\u200d social \u200bmedia platforms announced\u2063 that \u2062\u201cself-media\u201d accounts with\u200d more than 500,000 \u2062followers will be asked to\u200b display real-name information<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h3>Intel rose more than 9% on Friday and sparked a jump in chip stocks after the personal computer market was rebounding from its quarters-long slump.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h3>Amazon.com rose 7% \u200con Friday as it aims for\u200d a larger share \u2063of \u2062the \u2064booming artificial intelligence market in a race with\u2062 Microsoft.<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> rnrn  <\/p>\n<h2> How\u200d has the conflict between Israel and Hamas affected the\u2063 basic necessities such as\u200c food, water, electricity, and medical supplies in\u2062 Gaza?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  To basic necessities such as food, water, electricity, and medical supplies. \u2063The ongoing conflict between Israel\u2063 and Hamas has resulted in widespread \u200ddestruction and displacement, leaving the civilian population in a dire situation.<\/p>\n<p>The recent approval of around 400 United States\u200b citizens to \u2064leave Gaza through the Rafah border \u200cwith Egypt\u200c is \u200ba \u200csignificant development. This marks the first major departure of civilians from \u200dthe Gaza\u2064 Strip since\u2064 the conflict broke \u200cout \u2064on October 7th. \u2062The evacuation not only includes Americans but also individuals from Mexico, \u2064Hungary, Croatia, South\u200c Korea,\u2062 Azerbaijan, Greece, Chad, Bahrain, Italy, Switzerland, North Macedonia, \u2064Sri Lanka,\u200b the Netherlands, and Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>The State Department \u200chas been in \u200bcontact with approximately 400 Americans who have expressed their desire\u2064 to leave Gaza. Along with their family members, the\u200c total number of\u2063 individuals involved is around 1,000. These individuals \u200bhave been assigned specific departure dates and times by the department and \u200dwill be informed accordingly.<\/p>\n<p>The group\u200b of people\u2064 crossing\u200c the \u200dRafah border \u200cgates consists of foreign passport holders, including Palestinian dual \u200dnationals and some foreigners, critically injured patients headed for Egyptian hospitals,\u200b and\u2063 staff members from\u2063 humanitarian\u2063 organizations\u2064 like Doctors \u2064Without Borders, the International Committee \u200dof\u200c the Red Cross,\u2064 and\u2062 the\u200d United Nations\u200d agency\u200d for Palestinian refugees.<\/p>\n<p>The individuals who have been approved to leave Gaza express a mix\u200b of emotions.\u200c They are both happy and exhausted to have the \u2062ability to leave after \u200calmost a month of attacks and bombardments. However, they are also concerned for their family members and loved ones \u200dwho \u2062will be left behind\u200d in the \u2063dangerous situation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, 400 Americans, along with numerous civilians, have been granted permission to exit Gaza through the Rafah border with Egypt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2368,"featured_media":2088604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[542],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2088603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oann"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2088603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2088604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2088603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2088603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2088603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}