Several US citizens have filed lawsuits against the US government for not doing enough to extract their relatives stuck in the Palestinian enclave being relentlessly bombed by Israel.
Palestinians holding their foreign passports wait for permission to leave Gaza at the Rafah border crossing with Egypt
The State Department has previously deployed its military including naval vessels and helicopters for the evacuation of US citizens from similar situations such as when the Taliban took over in Afghanistan in 2021. Saqer and their children were visiting family in Gaza when hostilities broke out, and Israel announced a ‘siege’ of Gaza. Israel has now launched a ground offensive, which threatens to escalate the crisis.
Falla’s passport was stamped but she along with her children were denied exit from Gaza. She also had to abandon several personal items such as luggage and a baby stroller at the border. On Wednesday, more than 400 foreign passport holders and injured Palestinians from Gaza were allowed to pass through the Rafah crossing for the first time since Israeli air strikes began.
Justin Eisele, an attorney representing Younis, and other lawyers initiating the legal actions against the US state department say that the lawsuits are grounded in the equal protection clause of the constitution “and assert that their clients experienced unequal treatment in the repatriation process when contrasted with the efforts made to evacuate US citizens in Israel”.
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