The United States has announced that it interrupts all visitors’ visas for Gaza people while waiting for a “complete and in-depth” review, one day after publications on social networks on Palestinian refugees caused furious reactions of right-handers.
The move of the State Department on Saturday took place one day after the far-right activist and Trump Ally Laura Loomer posted on X that the Palestinians “who claim to be refugees from Gaza” entered the United States via San Francisco and Houston this month.
“How to allow Islamic immigrants to come to America’s first American policy?” She said that on X in a later post, continued her Palestinian arrivals in Missouri and claiming that “several American senators and members of the congress” had sent her a text to express their fury.
Republican legislators who spoke publicly included Chip Roy of Texas, who said he would inquire about the issue, and Randy Fine of Florida, who described alleged arrivals as a “national security risk”.
On Saturday, the State Department announced that it stopped visas for “Gaza individuals” while it carried out “a complete and in -depth examination of the process and procedures used to issue a small number of medial temporary medical visas in recent days”. He did not provide a figure.
The United States has issued 640 visas to the holders of the Palestinian Authority’s travel document in May, according to the Reuters news agency. B1 / B2 visitors’ visas allow Palestinians to wonder about medical care in the United States.
“Dangerous and inhuman decision”
Aid groups have urged the United States to reverse its “dangerous and inhuman decision”.
The Palestine children’s relief fund (PCRF) has said that new restrictions will prevent children with an urgent need for medical treatment to go to the United States.
“This will have a devastating and irreversible impact on our ability to bring injured and seriously sick children from Gaza to the United States for vital medical treatment,” warned the group.
Tareq Hailat, Director of World Affairs of Patients at the PCRF, urged Washington to cancel its decision. “This is an extremely devastating news,” he told Tel Aviv Tribune. “The impact of this decision will be devastating. And the United States must honestly reverse this decision immediately. ”
Hailat pointed out that denying medical visas bands the Gaza children of their “most fundamental human rights”.
Heal Palestine, who coordinates the evacuations of injured children and their families in the United States, said that he had helped 148 people so far, among the 63 children needing urgent care.
All visitors to visitors for Gaza are stopped while we carry out a complete and in -depth examination of the process and procedures used to issue a small number of temporary humanitarian visas in recent days.
– State Department (@stetept) August 16, 2025
The American-Islamic Relations Council (CAIR), a defense group for defenders, has also criticized the decision of the United States Department of State to stop issuing visas to the Palestinians in Gaza.
“The blocking of Palestinian children injured by American weapons to come to America for medical treatment is the last sign that the intentional cruelty of the” Israel First “administration of President Trump knows no limits,” the group said in a statement on X.
“It is also deeply ironic that the Trump administration prohibits Palestinian children looking for treatment while deploying the red carpet for racists and war criminals charged with the Israeli government. This ban is only the last example of the complicity of our government with the genocide of Israel, which is increasingly rejected by the American people, “he added.
Tamer Qarmout, an associate professor at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, said that the United States had “lost its soul” in the Gaza War thanks to its unshakable support in Israel.
Addressing Tel Aviv Tribune de Doha, he argued that Washington should suspend arms deliveries to Israel if he wanted to end what he described as a “genocide”.
Loomer, the far -right activist, praised the announcement of the state department on Saturday with Glee.
“This is incredible how fast we can get results from the Trump administration,” she said on Saturday, although she posted later than doing to “highlight the invasion crisis that occurs in our country”.
Although I appreciate the State Department and @Marcorubio By publishing this declaration, I want to support even stronger to highlight the crisis of the invasion that occurs in our country.
Visas and arrivals of Gazans for American airports are not new. This has increased considerably with speed …
– Laura Loomer (@lauraumer) August 16, 2025
The decision to reduce visas comes as Israel intensifies its attacks on Gaza, where at least 61,827 people have been killed in the last 22 months, with the United Nations warning that “generalized famine, malnutrition and disease” lead to an increase in death -related deaths.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pushed to grasp the city of Gaza as part of a takeover of the strip, forcibly shifting hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in concentration areas.
