Palestinians who have applied for their families to arrive in Australia on temporary visas say they are being left in the lurch after the federal government told them it cannot assist the evacuation of non-immediate family members from the war zone.
Palestinians who have applied for their families to arrive in Australia on temporary visas say they are being left in the lurch after the federal government told them it cannot assist the evacuation of non-immediate family members from the war zone . The Department of Home Affairs announced last month that 860 temporary visas were approved for Palestinians to stay in Australia for between three and 12 months. Melbourne man Saad Dawwas’ family in Gaza was approved in mid-November.
But, since then, their names have not appeared on the list of people who have been approved to leave Gaza through the Rafah Border Crossing. Palestinian families have been monitoring the list uploaded on the State of Palestine General Authority for Crossings and Borders Facebook page for weeks, and, while they have seen citizens of the United States and United Kingdom able to leave, only seven Australians have been named since December
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