{"id":148495,"date":"2023-10-13T12:07:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T16:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=148495"},"modified":"2023-10-13T12:07:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T16:07:49","slug":"americans-stranded-in-israel-as-other-countries-send-charter-flights-for-their-stranded-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=148495","title":{"rendered":"Americans stranded in Israel as other countries send charter flights for their stranded citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many American families traveled to Israel to celebrate the Jewish Holiday of Sukkot. As a part of the holiday observance, some turned their electronics off and did not switch them back on until the conclusion of the holiday. It was then that they found out about the Hamas attacks and the deteriorating conditions in Israel. Flights to the US got canceled, stranding these American families. Those that Fox News Digital interviewed hinted of the need for assistance from the US State Department. Other countries have chartered planes to help evacuate their citizens.<\/p>\n

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“This whole ordeal has been unimaginably stressful,” Moshe K., a resident of New Jersey who was visiting Jerusalem with 10 family members, told Fox News Digital. “I’m embarrassed of how the State Department has done nothing thus far to get us home other than collecting tens of thousands of names of stranded Americans who can’t get a flight out.”<\/p>\n

Moshe was scheduled to return home on Monday, two days after Hamas launched its brutal attack in southern Israel, murdering over 700 civilians. He said he fears his family will be stuck in Israel for several more days if the U.S. State Department doesn’t intervene.<\/p>\n

When he’s not frantically searching for flights home, Moshe and his family, including his children, elderly parents and young grandchildren, have been spending the past three days in and out of bomb shelters in their rented Jerusalem condo as air raid sirens continue blaring across the country.<\/p>\n

Moshe said he was told that Switzerland, Poland, Brazil and other European countries have sent charter planes to evacuate their citizens from the war-torn territory, but Americans have received no word from the consulate about an evacuation plan. U.S. families and individuals have been instructed to fill out an online form requesting help from the State Department, but most of them have not heard back.<\/p>\n

“While I fully understand that the State Department also has to sadly deal with killed and captured Americans, they have sufficient manpower to assign people to handle that aspect as well as the evacuation plan. The fact that 80 hours later, absolutely no word has come out as to what that plan is or concrete steps being taken to evacuate thousands who are stranded, is absolutely appalling,” Moshe said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fox News has additional information here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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