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美国众议院的共和党多数派强势推动通过了一项名为“以色列安全援助强化法案”的提案，旨在强制推进对以色列的重型军火运输。

二 |     While extensive, international negotiations have now led to the release of four hostages captured by Hamas, scores of foreign nationals in Gaza, including as many as 600 Americans, are still being blocked by the U.S.-designated terrorist group from crossing into Egypt, according to Biden administration officials."To date, at least, Hamas has blocked them from leaving, showing once again its total disregard for civilians of any kind who are stuck in Gaza," Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a televised interview Sunday.On Monday, State Department spokesman Matthew Miller clarified that the U.S. now assessed that after weeks of negotiations with Egypt and Israel aimed at securing safe passage for the Americans, only Hamas stood in the way."We do believe that Egypt is ready to process American citizens if they can make it to Egyptian authorities. Hamas just has to stop blocking their exit," Miller said.Miller also said that while U.S. officials were not in direct communication with Hamas, they have been urging Hamas to step aside in messages sent through "a number of partners."The Biden administration has been working since soon after the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel to reopen the Rafah gate -- the sole border crossing between Gaza and Egypt -- in order to move aid into the area and allow foreign nationals to leave.While a limited number of trucks carrying food, water and medicine were able to enter Gaza for the first time on Saturday, so far none of the foreign nationals has been allowed to leave.Miller explained that "a number of civilians, some American citizens" flocked to the Gaza side of the Rafah crossing when it was first opened, but none were able to leave because Hamas "was there blocking anyone from coming through the gate from the Gaza side out to the Egyptian side."According to U.S. officials, the Egyptian government has also been hesitant to allow civilians to exit Gaza through the Rafah gate because of the country's intense concern over security threats posed by terrorist activities on the Sinai Peninsula.Egyptian officials are also likely eager to avoid the optics of thousands of people pouring across the border from Gaza -- wary the country might appear complicit in what its president and other Middle Eastern leaders have said would be an "ethnic cleansing" of Gaza.While securing Egypt's cooperation in eventually facilitating the departure of American citizens would be a diplomatic achievement for the administration, it does not yet appear that Cairo has signaled it will extend the same opportunity to the parents, children, siblings, and partners of U.S. nationals in Gaza.Miller said it was still the administration's goal that the immediate family members of American citizens crossing through the Rafah gate would be allowed to depart as well, but that it was "an ongoing conversation" with Egypt.With a potential Israeli ground incursion looming, the already dire circumstances facing Americans and their loved ones inside Gaza may soon get even worse.Abood Okal, a 36-year-old American, has been stranded in Gaza with his wife and 1-year-old son since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war, told his lawyer, Sammy Nabulsi, that the family has been huddled in a home with 40 other people, sleeping on the floor, sharing meager amounts of food, and that for an entire day, they had been forced to drink salt water to survive.Nabulsi said in an interview with ABC News Live on Monday that Okal's family had been instructed by the State Department to go to the Rafah crossing four different times, but on each occasion no one had been allowed to pass through the gate."I think the holdup is the United States isn't focused on this effort at all," said Nabulsi. "It's unacceptable to me. It should be unacceptable to every single American citizen is this entire country."Although the State Department asserts that Hamas is preventing them from fleeing to safety, Miller said Americans stranded in Gaza are "in a different situation" from the around 220 individuals the Israeli Defense Forces believes are still being held hostage by the group."I am not at all trying to minimize the situation," Miller said, acknowledging Americans like Okal and his family are facing "deplorable" circumstances and vowing that U.S. officials are "working intensively' to get them out.The administration has not provided any number or estimate of how many of the 500 to 600 Americans thought to be trapped in Gaza have reached out to the State Department for help."We have a list of Americans who are registered with us, and when we have any information about the possibility of transiting outside of Gaza, we're providing it to all of them," Miller said.。此前，拜登政府因顾虑这批包括2000磅炸弹在内的重型武器可能被应用于以色列在加沙地带南部拉法的军事行动，而暂时叫停了交付流程。

此法案以224票赞同对187票反对的显著党派分野获得通过，绝大多数共和党议员支持，而民主党阵营中仅有16人背离，其余均投出反对票。

三 | 该法案文本严厉批评了“拜登政府暂停对以色列特定武器转移的决定”，正值以色列面临史无前例的安全挑战之际。更进一步，法案提出，若美国未能履行交付延迟的重型武器，将暂停对国防部和国务院的部分资金供给。

尽管该法案被普遍视作象征性举措，其在民主党主导的参议院通过前景渺茫。

四 | 投票前夕，拜登总统办公室已明确警告，若法案送达总统案头，将予以否决。白宫声明强烈反对该法案，认为其“妨碍总统有效执行外交政策的能力”，并可能“限制美国灵活调整对以色列安全援助的余地”。

拜登总统早前警示以色列，若其军事行动进一步深入拉法，美国将终止提供武器弹药供应。拉法，这个人口稠密的边境城市，已成为因以哈冲突而流离失所的约140万巴勒斯坦人的避风港。

五 | 近期，以色列国防军(IDF)通知拉法东南部居民撤离，预告即将来临的袭击。

六 |

据统计，截至周二，约45万居民选择离开家园。

七 | 联合国协调办公室预警，拉法东部、加沙市及贾巴利亚难民营可能遭遇地面入侵及激烈战斗。

根据地方卫生部门数据，自2023年10月7日冲突爆发以来，已导致逾35000名巴勒斯坦人丧生，冲突始于哈马斯袭击以色列，造成约1200名以色列人死亡及250多人被俘。