New travel ban at the White House on Gaza Sparks praised for children in Bay Area for medical treatment

San Francisco (KGO) – Last week three children arrived at San Francisco International Airport from Gaza for life -saving medical treatment. But now there are ensure that they can be returned.

Dr. Mohammad Subeh, a doctor for Emergency Department of Bay Area, and one of the doctors who have helped bringing the three children to Bay Area, says he had a feeling of “deep sadness and bewilderment that my fellow people want to inflict extra cruelty and inhumane actions against these children, who just try to survive.”

On Saturday, the White House announced that it will publish a travel ban About people who come from Gaza – a stop to all visitor visa and an overview of those who are already in the US on special medical visas.

“We are worried that this is a direct response to the Anti-Palestinian and Islamophobic rhetoric of representative Randy Fine and Laura Loomer … Because of his wider trend of ‘Israel first,’ said Zahra Billoo, executive director of the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter, the council of the American Relations.

Although President Trump has made comments that recognize the humanitarian crisis in Gazathe policy shift from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs after the extreme right-wing activist Laura Loomer is described by Cair National as an “anti-Muslim-samenvering theoretist”, ” the three Gazan children criticized because they came to the US for medical treatment.

Loomer, which is described as having An influential role in the Trump governmentclaims that the Gazan children who come for medial treatment form a ‘national security threat’. Then on Saturday, Loomer went to X to take credit for the policy change.

“The United States arm the Israeli military and settlers, allowing them to cause critical injuries to Palestinians. And now forbids those who ban very Palestinians to seek medical treatment in the United States,” said Billoo.

In a statement to ABC7 News, the organization Medicine PalestineWho brought the three Gazan children to the US says that, “it works closely with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to ensure that every child and their families meet their rigorous checking standards.”

Heal Palestine says that their patients pass through Palestinian, Israeli, Jordanian and American immigration officials before they come to the United States. Moreover, Heal Palestine says that all medical treatments are paid by donations.

Leyan, 14, was heavily burned and injured by grenade shards in a school bomb attack. Anas, 8, survived a bombing that killed his father. He ran into injuries on his legs. Six -year -old Ghazal was injured in an explosion. All have started treatment. Their operations will be planned as soon as the three overcome their malnutrition.

Related: Various injured children from Gaza arrive at SFO for medical care in Bay Area Hospitals

One of the children is treated in a hospital in East Bay. East Bay Congressman Lateeuwah Simon (D-Oakland) says that she will fight every attempt to send the children back early.

“I have read the message from the administration. And I think we can all see that the point is cruelty,” Simon said.

And although the chances that the three children from Gaza are sent home early are low, UC College of the Law Professor Emeritus George Bisharat says that nobody is safe.

“For humanitarian reasons, they cannot be subjected to this kind of discrimination. But that pattern is there. And it gives me concern that this is not a flash in the pan,” said Bisharat.

Heal Palestine says that one of the patients who came to the Bay Area in December 2024 has undergone surgery and received a prosthetic leg and eye. She goes home on Monday now that her treatment is completed.