A Palestinian woman whose son serves in the U.S. Navy was secretly evacuated from Gaza after a Trump-era diplomatic team and the governments of Israel and Jordan intervened, the Washington Post reported Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter and correspondence it reviewed.
According to the Post, the operation required a temporary pause in Israeli military strikes and coordination among multiple governments to ensure safe passage for 59-year-old Ahlam Firwana, whose U.S. Navy son, Petty Officer Younis Firwana, had spent months pleading for help.
The complex rescue underscored the near impossibility of legally escaping Gaza without high-level political support, the paper noted.
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