Washington (AP) – one day after conservative activist Laura Lumor Posted videos on children’s social media Gaza Arriving in the US for medical treatment and questioning how he received a visa, the Foreign Department said it was stopping all visa for Gaza people that pending a review.
State Department said on Saturday Visa will be stopped However, it appears as to how in recent times a small number of temporary medical visas “was released. Secretary of State Marco Rubio On CBS on Sunday, “Face the Nation” said that after action, “Outreach is asking questions about it from many Congress offices.”
Rubio said that the visa issued to children requiring medical assistance was just a “small number”, but they were with adults. The Congress offices arrived with evidence that “some of the organizations involved in obtaining these visas have strong ties for terrorist groups such as Hamas,” he said, without providing evidence to those organizations or without naming those organizations.
As a result, he said, “We are going to stop the program and revaluate how those visas are being waiting and what is the relationship, if any, have been done by these organizations for the process of achieving those visas.”
Lumor posted videos on Gaza’s children’s X on Friday, earlier this month for medical treatment called Aol Palestine for medical treatment in San Francisco and Houston. “Despite the US saying that we are not accepting the Palestinian refugees in the United States under the Trump administration,” these people of Gaza were able to travel to America, he said.
He called it a “national security threat” and asked who signed a visa, called for the person to be removed. He tagged Rubio, President Donald TrumpVice -president JD VanceGop Texas Gov. Greg abot And the Government of California. Gavin newsomA Democrat.
Trump has Loomer reduced the effects On his administration, but many officials were rapidly abandoned or removed immediately after criticizing him.
The state department on Sunday refused to comment on how many visas were given and whether the people of Gaza had nothing to stop with the posts of Lumor.
Hil Palestine said in a statement on Sunday that it was “distressed” by the state department’s decision to stop the visiting visa from Gaza. The group stated that it is “an American human non -profit organization that provides immediate assistance and medical care to children in Palestine.”
On the Facebook page of the organization on Thursday, a picture of a boy from Gaza appears in a post, who leaves Egypt and goes to St. Louis for treatment and said “he is our 15th vacant child to reach America in the last two weeks”.
The statement said that the organization brings “seriously injured children” to the US on a temporary visa for treatment not available at home. The statement said that after treatment, the child and any family members returned to the Middle East.
“This is a medical treatment program, not a refugee rehabilitation program,” it said.
The World Health Organization has repeatedly called for more medical clearance than Gaza, where more than 22 months of Israeli war against Hamas has destroyed or damaged the region’s health system.
“More than 14,800 patients are still not available in Gaza, which is not available in Gaza Tedros adhanom ghebreyesus On Wednesday, on social media, he said, and called on more countries to offer support.
The WHO description of the medical withdrawal process from Gaza published last year said that WHO presents a list of patients to Israeli officials for safety approval. It was noted that before the war began in Gaza, 50 to 100 patients were leaving daily Gaza for medical treatment, and called on Israeli officials a higher approval rate.
The United Nations and partners say that the drugs and even basic health care supplies in Gaza are low in Gaza after cutting all assistance in the area of more than 10 million people for more than 10 weeks earlier this year.
“Struggle stop! Peace is the best medicine,” Tedros said on Wednesday.
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