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Hamas put wounded fighters on departure lists, delaying efforts to evacuate foreigners, a U.S. official says.
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A Biden administration official said on Friday that efforts to get Americans and other foreign nationals out of Gaza, a process that finally began on Wednesday, had been held up by Hamas trying to get its own wounded fighters included among those to be escorted into Egypt through the Rafah gate.
People holding dual, U.S. or other foreign citizenship repeatedly gathered at the gate, at Gaza’s southern border, starting shortly after Oct. 7.
For most of that time, American officials said only that Hamas was preventing the departure of foreign nationals, and that the group was making unreasonable demands.
On Friday, a senior administration official provided more detail about those demands, speaking with reporters on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive negotiations.
The official said that Hamas repeatedly provided to Israel, the United States and Egypt lists of Palestinians who had been wounded and should be allowed to depart with the Americans and others.
The prospect of Hamas fighters leaving Gaza was especially troubling for Egypt, which remains concerned about the possibility of terrorists flowing into its country.
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