Americans beg for help getting family out of Gaza. “I just want to see my mother again,” a son says.

WASHINGTON (AP) – The State Department says some 300 U.S. citizens, green-card holders or close family members are trapped in Gaza by the fighting between Israel and Hamas militants.

FILE – Israeli troops take positions in the Gaza Strip as seen from southern Israel, Thursday, Dec. 21, 2023. The army is battling Palestinian militants across Gaza in the war ignited by Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack into Israel. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg, File)

Relatives in the United States and other advocates are pleading for the Biden administration and Congress to help them flee. Among those holed up in Gaza is a 44-year-old Palestinian mother of three American sons.

They’ve already lost their father to the violence. One son is serving in the U.S. Army in South Korea. Another is a university student in California.

He says, “I just want to see my mother again.” After his father’s death, he said, “I can’t bear to lose her.”

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