Florida-based nonprofit evacuates Americans from Israel, asks 'where is' State Dept
Americans in the hundreds have turned to Project DYNAMO to find a way out of Israel as airlines pause services and avenues out of the country continue to disappear.
"My team of case managers, who are based in America, they’ve been awake for three days just fielding hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of requests from Americans who are stuck," the project’s founder and CEO Bryan Stern told reporters during the first of several daily updates.
"Most of those hundreds equal a few people, meaning a father reaches out representing his family … not always the case, but very often the case," he explained, saying that his team was "completely saturated" with requests.
Hamas terrorists launched thousands of missiles at Israel and invaded towns along the Gaza border on Saturday, killing at least over 1,000 people, including 14 Americans, and wounding thousands more and prompting Israel to declare war against the Iran-backed group.
President Biden said during a press conference on Tuesday that his government has confirmed American citizens are among the hostages taken by Hamas. Israel has launched its own hostage rescue operations, with the U.S. seemingly providing intelligence mainly.
Airlines, including American, United and Delta, have suspended service to Israel amid the conflict, with United telling FOX Business that "the safety of our customers and crews is our top priority."
With few options open to them, Americans have turned to Project DYNAMO, a nonprofit headquartered in Florida that has conducted evacuation and rescue operations in Afghanistan, Ukraine and Maui since its founding in Aug. 2021, after the messy U.S. military drawdown in Afghanistan that left hundreds of Americans stranded in the country.
"We're still pulling Americans out of Afghanistan - I have 22 Americans I'm trying to get out of Afghanistan right now, that's my next call," Stern told reporters. "So we're busy. We're busy all the time with all kinds of things."
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