Posted on 10/14/2023 1:02:35 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
A diplomatic effort to evacuate U.S. citizens from Gaza faltered after Egyptian officials said they would only allow foreigners to cross the border if aid could pass in the opposite direction.
Egypt’s refusal on Saturday, confirmed by three officials and in an announcement on state television, thwarted the latest U.S. push to evacuate any of the 500 or more Americans in Gaza wishing to leave through the enclave’s southern border with Egypt.
Israel—which has sealed off Gaza’s northern border with a ground invasion by Israeli forces believed imminent—said Saturday that it would give a few hours of safe passage for people in northern Gaza to move southward. A doctor in Gaza said corpses were piling up in the main hospital’s morgue and under rubble from Israeli airstrikes launched in response to Hamas militants’ lightning strike into Israel last Saturday.
Earlier Saturday, the U.S. had helped broker a deal between Israel and Egypt to allow U.S. citizens across the Rafah border crossing from Gaza to Egypt, according to a senior U.S. official and an Arab official.
But the deal’s 5 p.m. deadline for evacuees to cross passed, and three Egyptian officials said no foreigners would be allowed through unless an agreement is reached to allow the delivery of water, food, medical supplies and other aid into the Gaza Strip.
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State dept is saying now to head south in expectation that crossing will be open tomorrow.
Egypt probably has to open it once the ground invasion begins.
The Egyptian border crossing is not totally controlled by Egypt?
Oh God, Joe Bribeme will want to bring them ALL to this country.
“ Egypt probably has to open it once the ground invasion begins.”
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Why? Honest question.
500 “Americans” are in Gaza?!?!? Perhaps they should just stay there, forever.
Beginning to look like a repeat of the Kabul fiasco...
Egypt should say no. Even if they’re “Americans”, they may have sympathies for Hamas.
“Why? Honest question.”
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Humanitarian catastrophe as hundreds of thousands of people move south with no food, water, medicine, or place to stay.
How many of these 500 are dual citizens? It is time to end all dual citizenship. No one can give their allegiance to more than one country. What happens when their two countries get into a conflict?
Expect a Cluster-You-Know-What of the highest magnitude when this is all said and done.
Trump would have had them holding the gates open.
If they get supplies, they'll give them to Hamas terrorists.
“Egypt’s refusal on Saturday, confirmed by three officials and in an announcement on state television, thwarted the latest U.S. push to evacuate any of the 500 or more Americans in Gaza wishing to leave through the enclave’s southern border with Egypt.”
fine: cut off all Egyptian aid IMMEDIATELY; halt all trade with Egypt IMMEDIATELY; halt all commercial U.S. air flights in and out of Egypt IMMEDIATELY; et. al.
Agree...
Looks like two foreign policies being pursued by different agencies because no one is paying attention to the corrupt senile husk of a man pretending to be President.
We should probably evacuate Egypt too.
Only if he gets his 10%!
Biden probably told Egypt to block any Americans who want to exit GAZA thru the southern border.
Biden and his henchmen are evil enough to have a bunch of Americans die at the hands of the Israeli army just to appease the leftists in America
Hmmm, sounds familiar
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