2023-11-04 13:43:59
A Palestinian-American man trapped inside Gaza urged the United States to intervene in the conflict between Israel and Hamas, according to a post by a US congresswoman on social media.
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Zakaria Alarayshi sent a voice note and text message from the besieged enclave to Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, describing her condition as dire and saying there is no medicine, food or water, according to a post by the congresswoman on Instagram.
“We are sick. We can’t take it anymore… We need to put pressure on [el presidente Joe] “Biden to stop this war,” Alarayshi said in a voice note on Tlaib’s post. “This war kills people. He doesn’t kill Hamas: he kills children, the elderly and women, and they kill everyone. “That’s not fair… We need to get ourselves out.”
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Alarayshi, who lives in Dearborn, Michiganwas visiting his family in Gaza with his wife, Laila Alarayshi, when hostilities broke out, he previously reported.
The couple remains stuck and “terrified” in Gaza despite being ordered to go to the Rafah border for evacuation six times but denied, according to a family lawyer.
Lawyers for the family filed a lawsuit on October 13 against the US Department of State and Department of Defense for allegedly failing to “safely evacuate US citizens currently in the besieged Gaza Strip.” , he indicated.
“The voices of those on the ground in Gaza need to be heard now more than ever,” Congresswoman Tlaib’s Instagram post read.
First evacuees: On Wednesday, wounded Palestinians and hundreds of foreigners began crossing from Gaza into Egypt through the Rafah crossing. Among them were more than 360 foreign passport holders, many of them dual Palestinian nationals, an Egyptian government official told CNN. U.S. citizens are among the initial group of foreigners who left the country, the U.S. State Department said, without providing details on the numbers.
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Japanese citizens and their Palestinian families among Gaza evacuees, Tokyo says
Ten Japanese citizens and eight of their Palestinian relatives were evacuated from Gaza to Egypt on Wednesday, according to Japanese authorities.
At a regular news conference Thursday, Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno said that a Japanese national who remained in Gaza has relatives in the enclave and had not requested evacuation.
“We are in close contact with this person,” he said.
In the first sanctioned exodus from Gaza in weeks, wounded Palestinians and hundreds of foreigners began crossing into Egypt through the Rafah border crossing on Wednesday. They include more than 360 foreign passport holders, many of them dual Palestinian nationals, an Egyptian official told CNN.
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