U.S. citizens have been taken hostage in Israel, while others have been displaced in Gaza.
Yousef Abdulaziz Abu Shaaban, a U.S citizen living in Gaza CIty, was injured in an Israeli airstrike that killed one of his sisters and injured two other members of his family, per the Washington Post. Photo: Ali Jadallah/Anadolu via Getty Imagesin Israel, and hundreds more U.S. citizens are trapped in the Gaza Strip ahead of an expected Israeli ground offensive.
The State Department declined to provide Axios with estimates of the numbers of Americans living in the West Bank or Gaza.in the West Bank prior to the outbreak of war. Now, there are rising fears that the Israel-Hamas conflict could spill over into the territory. In the past two weeks, Israel has conducted at least two air strikes and multiple raids targeting Hamas and other Palestinian militants in the West Bank.Approximately 86,000 Americans were believed to be in Lebanon at the time of the Hamas attacks, per the Washington Post.While both Egypt and Jordan border Israel and the Palestinian territories, there are not currently any indications that civilians in either country will be directly affected by the fighting.
About 60,000 American citizens reside permanently in Egypt and hundreds of thousands of Americans visit Egypt annually, according to theor visit as tourists each year, though the State Department did not provide Axios with an estimate as to how many.A State Department spokesperson told Axios they could not provide figures for how many U.S. citizens visit or live in particular countries.
"U.S. citizens are not required to register their travel to a foreign country with us, so we cannot track how many U.S. citizens have gone to a specific country," the spokesperson added.Share on linkedin
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