Overview

• 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.