A day after conservative activist Laura Loomer had posted videos on social media from children from Gaza who arrived in the US for medical treatment and wondered how they got Visa, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that all visitor visa stopped for people from Gaza awaiting a review.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Saturday that the Visa would be stopped, while investigating how “a small number of temporary medical-humanitarian visas” was published in recent days. State Secretary Marco Rubio On Sunday, “Face the Nation” on CBS told that the action came after “Outreach of multiple congress offices who asked about it.”
Rubio said that “only a small number” of the Visa had been issued to children who need medical help, but that they were accompanied by adults. The congress offices argued with proof that “some organizations that are bragging about and involved in acquiring these visas, have strong ties with terrorist groups such as Hamas,” he claimed, without providing evidence or to mention those organizations.
As a result, he said: “We are going to pause and evaluate this program how that visas are screened and what relationship, if present, has been by these organizations to acquire that visa.”
Loomer posted videos on X of Children from Gaza on Friday who arrived earlier this month in San Francisco and Houston for medical treatment with the help of an organization called Heal Palestine. “Although the US say that we do not accept Palestinian ‘refugees’ in the United States under the Trump government,” these people from Gaza could travel to the US, she said.
She called it a “national security threat” and asked who unsubscribed from the Visa and called to dismiss the person. She tagged Rubio, President Donald Trump, vice -president JD Vance, Gop Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a Democrat.
Trump triggered Loomer’s influence on his administration, but various officials left quickly or were criticized shortly after they publicly criticized.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs refused on Sunday to comment on how much of the Visa had been granted and whether the decision to stop Visa to people from Gaza had something to do with the posts of Loomer.
Heal Palestine said in a statement on Sunday that it was ‘sad’ by the decision of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to stop the visitor visa from Gaza. The group said it is “an American humanitarian non -profit organization that provides urgent help and medical care to children in Palestine.”
A message on the Facebook page of the organization on Thursday shows a photo of a boy from Gaza who leaves Egypt and went to St. Louis for treatment and said that he is “our 15th evacuated child has arrived in the US in the last two weeks.”
The organization brings “seriously injured children” to the US on temporary visas for treatment that they cannot get at home, according to the statement. After the treatment, the children and all family members who accompanied them return to the middle -east, according to the statement.
“This is a medical treatment program, not a resettlement program for refugees,” said it.
The World Health Organization has repeatedly called for more medical evacuations from Gaza, where Israel’s war of more than 22 months against Hamas has heavily destroyed or damaged a large part of the health system of the territory.
“More than 14,800 patients still need life-saving medical care that is not available in Gaza,” said director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on social media on Wednesday and called on more countries to offer support.
A WHO description of the medical evacuation process of Gaza published last year explained that the WHO lists of patients to Israeli authorities for security authorization. It noted that before the war in Gaza started, 50 to 100 patients left Gaza daily for medical treatment, and asked for a higher approval percentage of the Israeli authorities.
The UN and partners say that medicines and even basic stocks in health care are low in Gaza after Israel has cut off all the help of the territory of more than 2 million people more than 10 weeks earlier this year.
“Stopilstand! Peace is the best medicine,” Tedros added on Wednesday.
The “sausage-case scenario of famine” unfolds in the Gaza Strip under the attack of Israel, according to the integrated classification of the food safety phase.
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