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Biden: 74 Americans and their families left Gaza today

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2 November 2023, 7:15 pm Edit

Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief

WASHINGTON — US President Joe Biden tells reporters at the White House that 74 American citizens and their families managed to leave Gaza today, thanks to Washington’s diplomatic engagements in the region.

Several hundred Palestinians in Gaza with dual citizenship were able to start leaving the Strip through Egypt’s Rafah crossing yesterday for the first time since the war started.

The US says 400 of its citizens have been in contact with the State Department about trying to leave Gaza. Washington is working on getting all of them out in the coming days along with roughly 600 of their relatives.