President Biden on Thursday said 74 dual-citizen Americans were evacuated from Gaza, where Israel forces are trying to root out Hamas terrorists who raided their country on Oct. 7.
Mr. Biden announced the development in brief remarks at the start of a White House meeting with Luis Abinader, president of the Dominican Republic.The administration and partners are trying to evacuate Americans, hospital patients and others from Gaza as fears mount over the civilian death toll in the Hamas-controlled strip of land between Egypt and Israel.
Mr. Biden and other officials say they stand by Israel but the Middle East ally must follow international law and safeguard Palestinian lives while fighting Hamas in Gaza. “Israel has the right and obligation to defend itself,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Thursday at Joint Base Andrews near Washington.
At the same time, Mr. Blinken said Israel and other democracies have a duty “to do everything possible” to protect civilians who might be caught in harm’s way.Mr. Blinken said seeing the body of a Palestinian child pulled from the rubble “hits me in the gut” just as much as seeing the body of a child from Israel or anywhere else.
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Joe Biden says Americans expected to be able to depart Gaza soonMike Brest is a defense reporter at the Washington Examiner. Prior to joining the defense beat, he spent two years covering breaking news for the Examiner, and he worked at the Daily Caller in a similar capacity before that. Mike graduated from American University and is originally from the suburbs of Philadelphia.
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