300 Americans Trapped in Gaza Amid Ongoing Conflict

As casualties rise, U.S. citizens and legal residents plead for help to escape the war-torn region.

300 American citizens, permanent legal residents or their parents and young children are trapped by the fighting between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza.
Gaza’s Health Ministry has reported more than 20,000 deaths in the fighting and more than 53,600 wounded.
More than a half-million people are starving in Gaza because of the war.
The State Department has helped more than 1,300 people who were eligible for U.S. assistance — American citizens, green-card holders and their immediate family members — make it through the Rafah crossing to Egypt.
A lawsuit has been filed accusing the U.S. government of failing to protect Americans in danger abroad and unconstitutionally denying Palestinian Americans the kind of assistance it gave Israeli Americans.