U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said at a Senate hearing in Washington that the U.S. is working to rescue 400 American citizens and their families from the Gaza Strip, a total of 1,000 people. Blinken said the Biden administration is working in "a variety of ways" to allow them to leave the Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing into Egypt, and said that Hamas is preventing them from doing so. Hamas reportedly has set various demands on the US in exchange for allowing them to leave. (Ynet)
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Blinken: Hamas preventing hundreds of US citizens from fleeing Gaza
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