No timeline as to when all the Americans will leave or when Egypt will close the crossing again.
that the United States has finally secured safe passage for Americans and wounded Palestinians through the Rafah border crossing into Egypt:
State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller later said during a press briefing that “there are around 400 Americans in Gaza with whom we are in communication, who have expressed a desire to leave” and that “There are a number of American citizens who have crossed through Rafah and are in Egypt today.”: “Hamas was impeding the departure of American citizens and other foreign nationals.
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