US halts visitor visas from Gaza used for medical trips
The US State Department has announced that it has stopped all visitor visas for people from Gaza.
In the Agency X. “In recent days, a few temporary medical-human visa processes and procedures used to publish a complete and comprehensive examination of a pause has been published.
The decision condemned some Palestinian rights groups.
The Palestinian Children’s Aid Fund said that the decision would have a destructive and irreversible effect on our ability to bring to the United States for life -saving medical treatment from Gaza to the United States, “the decision said.
The policy shift of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs comes after a series of articles that criticize the visa program about the X most right activist Laura Loomer and call Trump administration to “close this disgust”.
X received loans for Loomer shift on Saturday, and thanked Foreign Minister Marco Rubio for temporarily stopped visas.
The Palestinian Children’s Aid Fund said that he had released 169 children from Gaza in 2024 as part of the treatment program abroad and brought them to Middle East, Europe, South Africa and the United States for care.
For two and a half years, Gaza, who entered a war following the Israeli attack of Hamas on October 7, 2023, saw that most of the medical infrastructure were damaged and now facing dramatic food scarcity.
Humanitarian groups claimed that an Israeli blockade that began in March prevented non -governmental organizations from giving enough food to Gaza. The Israeli government said it aims to prevent the rules of aid rules to be taken by Hamas.
Supported Food Security Organizations, humanitarian groups and journalists who reported in Gaza warned about famine conditions in Gaza.
In late July, the BBC joined the international news organizations to Agency France-Pressse, Associated Press and Reuters to organize a public statement that warns that journalists in Gaza faced hunger.
“These independent journalists have become the eyes and ears of the world in Gaza. Now they are facing the same conditions as they cover.”
In July, US President Donald Trump said it was “real hunger” in Gaza, but the administration remained firmly behind Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
