Palestinian Americans sue Biden administration over family members trapped in Gaza

Palestinian Americans have lodged a complaint against the Biden administration over their family members stuck in Gaza, amid the Israeli regime's brutal bombardment of the besieged enclave.

Media reports said on Friday that two Palestinian American families sued the Biden administration, holding the US government responsible for not taking necessary steps to organize dedicated flights or otherwise help secure the exit of an estimated 900 US citizens, residents, and family members who remain trapped in Gaza since the Israeli regime unleashed its genocidal war on Gazans.

“There is more that the US government can do and they are choosing not to do it for Palestinians,” Chicago-based Yasmeen Elagha, who has family members stuck in Gaza and helped organize the lawsuit, said in an interview.

The complaint against the Biden administration, filed on Wednesday in the US District Court in Indianapolis, accuses the federal government of failing to protect US citizens in an active war zone.

The lawsuit also charges the US government for denying equal protection to Palestinian Americans, which is a Constitutional right of all naturalized or native-born US citizens.

The recent lawsuit seeks to push the government to begin evacuation efforts and secure the safety of US citizens “on equal terms to other noncombatants in the same war zone.”

Elagha’s cousins, Borak Alagha and Hashem Alagha, are two of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit. They are both US citizens who had been studying engineering in the Gaza Strip when the Israeli regime forces began exterminating its population on Oct. 7.

US citizens aiming to leave the Gaza Strip through the Rafah border with Egypt need approval from both sides’ authorities; however, the three Palestinian Americans cited in the lawsuit have not been cleared to leave, according to Elagha.

Arab-American Civil Rights League lawyer, Maria Kari, who represents the plaintiffs, said her organization had filed about 40 lawsuits in October on behalf of Palestinian Americans. “We’re simply asking the Biden administration to do something it already did for a class of citizens in the same war.”

Palestinians slam US veto of UN resolution for Gaza ceasefire as 'disastrous'

Palestinian officials condemn the US veto of a draft ceasefire resolution at the UN Security Council urging Gaza ceasefire as “disastrous” and “a disgrace.”

Meanwhile, US President Joe Biden recently claimed once more to be a Zionist, reiterating his full support for the Apartheid regime.

"I'm a Zionist,” Biden said earlier this week, reaffirming his administration's all-out support for the Israeli killing machine.

The United States also used its power of veto to reject a UN Security Council resolution that called for an immediate humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza.

Since the occupying regime unleashed its genocidal war against the Gaza Strip on Oct. 7, the international community, except the US, has unanimously called for an end to hostilities against civilians.

Till now, some 19,000 Gazans, mostly women and children, have been killed by the Israeli war machine.

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