Florida-based nonprofit evacuates Americans from Israel, asks ‘where is’ State Dept
Published October 11, 2023 8:01am EDT
Americans in the hundreds have turned to Project DYNAMO to find a way out of Israel as airlines pause services and avenues out of the country continue to disappear.
“My team of case managers, who are based in America, they’ve been awake for three days just fielding hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of requests from Americans who are stuck,”
Stern mentioned on several occasions that he received requests from Americans in Gaza but stressed the limits of his resources. He said that the group has access to around a dozen planes, with the smallest able to hold 150 passengers, and the group heavily relies on donations to operate.
So having said all of that, funding drives everything,” he added. “As a veteran-led, donor-funded nonprofit … these boats don’t pay for themselves. Flights don’t pay for themselves,” acknowledging he has seen small increase in donations but “not enough.”
“A plane out of here is going to cost $300,000 to $400,000, and we’re not making anything close to that,” he stressed. “So we’re going have to change our calculus a little bit.”
This group was already in israel, trying to get people out. Money just helped.
Governor DeSantis partnered with a well established org. with available assets. No need to reinvent the wheel. Smart move to quickly begin evacuating Florida residents from the Israel war zone, as Gov. DeSantis pledged.
270 people were on the charter flight, traveling from Tel Aviv to Portugal to Tampa.
75% Floridians
91 children
4 dogs
https://winknews.com/2023/10/15/floridian-return-home-israel-ron-desantis/
So 7 people landed at orlando, but I can’t find details anywhere on why only 7 people.