President Joe Biden said Thursday that 74 U.S. citizens with dual citizenship have left the Gaza Strip, announcing the development as he dispatched his top…
The White House has previously said some 500 to 600 U.S. citizens had been trapped in Gaza since the start of the Oct. 7 Israel-Hamas war, announcing the development as he dispatched his top diplomat to the Middle East for consultation with Israeli and Jordanian leaders concerning the Israel-Hamas war.
Kirby said Qatar, which maintains lines of communication with Hamas, was particularly helpful in smoothing the way for the Americans to be able to leave Gaza.. Blinken is returning to the region with a somewhat more nuanced message than he offered in the immediate aftermath of Hamas’ bloody attack on Israel and Israel's military response.
Biden also met Thursday with Chilean President Gabriel Boric, who is in Washington for a White House summit with Western Hemisphere leaders.Boric earlier this week recalled Chile's ambassador to Israel over concerns about the killing of civilians in Gaza. Neither Boric nor Biden spoke to the decision by Chile, one of several countries that's taken diplomatic action against Israel over how it’s prosecuting the war, during a brief appearance before reporters at the start of their meeting.
But, Blinken will also be introducing a new element to the U.S. list of priorities: the need for Israel and its neighbors to begin to consider what a post-conflict Gaza will look like, who will govern it, how it can be made secure and how to establish an independent Palestinian state. The push for a two-state solution — one in which Israel would co-exist with an independent Palestinian state — has long eluded U.S. presidents and Middle East diplomats and had been on the back burner by Biden early in his tenure.
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