Nawal Alghalayini, an 81-year-old Palestinian American, was trapped in Gaza. On Friday, she escaped into Egypt, four days after suing top U.S. officials.
Egyptian border guards check the documents of people leaving Gaza as dual national Palestinians and foreigners prepare to cross the Rafah border with Egypt on Nov. 2. As Gaza turned into a war zone last month, 81-year-old Nawal Alghalayini was desperate to escape. The Palestinian American, who had returned to her homeland this summer for the first time since moving to the United States 30 years ago, fled south to try to get into Egypt.
On Friday, her case was still proceeding in the U.S. District Court for Northern California when she escaped Gaza through the Rafah border crossing into Egypt, Shamieh told The Post. That makes her one of more than 400 U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents and other eligible individuals that, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed that Israel would assume responsibility for Gaza’s security “for an indefinite period.
For weeks, Alghalayini and her son awaited instruction from the State Department while moving from house to house every few days, thinking it safer than staying in one spot, Shamieh said. Meanwhile, her relatives in the United States were contacting State Department officials, U.S. senators and members of the House of Representatives to pressure them into rescuing Alghalayini and the other Americans trapped in Gaza, Shamieh said. They received canned responses, he added.Finally, on Oct.
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