State Department halts Gaza visitor visas
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Trump administration halts visas for people from Gaza after conservative activist questions arrivals
A day after conservative activist Laura Loomer posted videos on social media of children from Gaza arriving in the United States for medical treatment and questioning how they got visas, the State Department said it was halting all visitor visas for people from Gaza pending a review.
The world is asking why major Jewish organizations, and congregations around the country, aren’t speaking out about genocide. It can’t be hidden. The failure to condemn Israel’s crimes against humanity is a glaring breakdown of moral responsibility,
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State Department move comes as Israel’s war and induced famine in Gaza reach new extremes, with 61,827 killed so far.
An 11-year-old boy from Gaza is beginning medical treatment in Atlanta after losing his legs in an airstrike last year.
Thank you to Bernie Sanders (“US must end its complicity in Israel’s annihilation of Gaza,” Opinion, Aug. 2) and Alex de Waal (“A massacre in slow motion: Israel is responsible for mass starvation in Gaza,” Opinion, Aug. 8) for shedding light on the reality of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s “war against Hamas” in Gaza.
The move comes after Loomer, the right-wing provocateur, freaked out over a video of children from Gaza coming to the U.S. for medical care