Family members of six American citizens trapped in Gaza plead for US President Joe Biden to help their relatives get out from what started as a long-awaited vacation and turned into a horrific nightmare.
Shamiss Kaoud, 33, of Moreno Valley, California, says she and her sister have been calling the US State Department daily to try to get her 68-year-old father, Jamal, his four brothers and one of her cousins evacuated from the war zone.
“No one is listening. No one is helping. It’s as if nobody cares,” she tells reporters at a press conference in Anaheim, California. “Shouldn’t being a US citizen matter?”
The group traveled to Gaza in late September to visit family and has since gone three times to Gaza’s Rafah crossing with Egypt, but has not been able to get out.
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