State Department halts Gaza visitor visas

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Source: The Hill

The State Department on Saturday said it would halt Gaza visitor visas to the U.S.

“All visitor visas for individuals from Gaza are being stopped while we conduct a full and thorough review of the process and procedures used to issue a small number of temporary medical-humanitarian visas in recent days,” the department wrote in a Saturday statement on the social media platform X.

Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/international/5456049-state-department-gaza-visitor-visa/

[cbabe]

1. Never again:

Holocaust Encyclopedia
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org › content › en › article › voyage-of-the-st-louis

Voyage of the St. Louis | Holocaust Encyclopedia

Jun 18, 2024Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany board the St. Louis. The ship would be denied entry into Cuba and the United States and forced to return

[hlthe2b]

2. Pardon my cynicism (realism?) but sounds like a green light for Netanyahu to go full speed ahead...

with extermination. Don't like the term? Then STOP HIM/IT!

It is no less genocide if someone less universally hated (and who represents a people with such a storied and devastating history of experiencing the same) does it. Indiscriminate killing of women and children trapped in a war zone with enforced famine--bombed while they wait in line for medical care or desperate food supplies... What would others CHOOSE to call it?

[Bayard]

3. Once again, cruelty is the point