Andrew Miller, a former senior State Department official specializing in Israeli-Palestinian affairs during the Biden administration, explained that Gaza residents could only obtain US visas by appearing at embassies in Jerusalem, Cairo, or Amman and completing security examinations. “What’s more, just to get to a US embassy outside of Gaza, the Israeli military and security services had to clear them and anyone accompanying them,” he stated, adding: “From what I saw, any insinuation that we were taking an unusual security risk in these cases is baseless.”
