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Sat 16 Aug 2025 8:04 pm - Jerusalem Time

America suspends visitor visas for Gazan Palestinians under pressure from the extreme American-Israeli right.

The U.S. State Department announced on Saturday that it has halted the issuance of visitor visas for Palestinians from Gaza, while conducting a "comprehensive and thorough review of the procedures and mechanisms followed for issuing a limited number of temporary humanitarian medical visas in recent days."


This suspension comes after Laura Loomer, the far-right influencer who has significant influence over U.S. President Donald Trump despite her repeated public disagreements with other senior officials in his circle, posted videos showing injured Palestinian children in need of emergency medical care, calling on the State Department to stop granting "Islamic invaders" entry visas to the United States.


She added: "Who is granting them visas? We did not vote for mass immigration of jihadists to our country. This is America finally. They must be besieged and deported."


Republican lawmakers, such as Representative Randy Fine (from Florida), a far-right Jewish congressman who previously called for withholding humanitarian aid as leverage to secure the release of hostages, and Senator Tom Cotton (from Arkansas), indicated that they would investigate the funding of organizations that facilitated the entry of Palestinian refugees into the United States, such as the "Healing Palestine" organization, as well as these organizations' ties to Hamas.


Loomer welcomed the State Department's announcement, stating: "We hope that all residents of Gaza will be added to the travel ban imposed by President Trump. There are doctors in other countries. The United States is not the world's hospital!"


Representative Fine, who previously called for cleaning Gaza of Palestinians and relocating them to Sinai and other places, welcomed the decision that ensures the United States "will expose the reality of this threat to national security," and praised Loomer "for bringing this to light and informing me and other officials about it."


It is noted that under the visa waiver agreement signed between the Biden administration and Israel on September 30, 2023, the entry of Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza into the United States should be facilitated.

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