Nearly 150 Members of Congress Urge to Evacuate Americans Stranded in Israel

Members of Congress urged the Biden administration to consider chartering flights or using military options to safely evacuate U.S. citizens from Israel.

Smoke in the Rehovot area as rockets are launched from the Gaza Strip, in Israel, on Oct. 7, 2023. Ilan Rosenberg/Reuters

Nearly 150 members of Congress are calling on the Biden administration to use all available resources, including chartering flights, to evacuate Americans seeking to leave Israel amid the ongoing war.

In a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Oct. 10, 146 bipartisan members of Congress said they had received “harrowing reports” from constituents trapped in Israel since the terrorist organization Hamas launched a large-scale attack on Israel on Oct. 7.