Border crossings continue in Rafah for 2nd day
Hundreds of foreign nationals and dual citizens, including about 400 Americans, were eligible to cross from the Gaza Strip into Egypt, local officials said Thursday.
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Egyptian authorities published a list of some 600 names of those who would be permitted to leave though the Rafah crossing on the second day it’s been open since Hamas militants attacked Israel on Oct. 7.
In total some 7,000 foreign nationals from about 60 countries were eligible to leave, officials said.
Lena Beseiso, a 57-year-old American from Salt Lake City, Utah, was on the list on Thursday. Beseiso had previously told ABC News she had made the trip to the border twice only to be turned away.
"Our government has the power to demand the Egyptians to open the border. Why do they delay, keeping our lives in danger?" she told ABC News last month.