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A |     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.。    경찰, 30대男 구속영장 신청 예정 범행 뒤 여장으로 위장, 수사 혼선피해 여성 시신 일부 훼손 정황도대학원 수료증을 받기 위해 한국에 귀국한 20대 중국인 여학생이 실종 닷새 만에 숨진 채 발견된 가운데 경찰이 30대 중국인 남성 정모씨(35)를 피의자로 붙잡아 범행 동기 등을 수사하고 있다.피해자가 다니던 대학에서 강사로 근무했던 정씨는 피해 여성의 실종 사실을 경찰에 맨 처음 알린 인물이다. 정씨는 자신의 주거지에서 이 여성을 숨지게 한 후 여성처럼 옷을 입고 이동하는 등 경찰 수사에도 혼선을 준 것으로 확인됐다.26일 경북 경산경찰서에 따르면 중국인 여학생 A씨(25)는 졸업식이 열린 지난 20일 오후 늦게부터 가족 등과 연락이 끊겼다. 이후 A씨에 대한 실종 신고는 다음 날인 지난 21일 오후 7시께 정씨가 경찰에 가장 먼저 접수했다. 당시 정씨는 경찰에 자신을 A씨의 남자친구라고 밝히며 “대구로 나간다고 했는데 연락이 안 된다”고 신고했다.하지만 경찰은 정씨를 참고인 신분으로 조사하는 과정에서 진술이 수상한 점을 포착했고 그의 행적을 수상히 여긴 경찰은 정씨를 유력 용의자로 긴급 체포했다. 이에 경찰은 정씨 집에서 숨진 A씨를 발견했다. 경찰은 A씨의 시신 일부가 훼손된 정황도 파악해 정씨를 상대로 유기 장소 등도 집중 추궁하고 있다.정씨는 A씨를 살해한 후 수사에 혼선을 주기 위해 A씨인 것처럼 위장한 혐의도 받고 있다. 조사 결과 정씨는 실종 신고 전날인 지난 20일 오후 10시 30분께 혼자 여성 옷을 입고 모자 등으로 얼굴을 가린 채 주거지를 빠져나온 것으로 조사됐다. 이후 그는 동대구역까지 이동했고 동대구역 인근에서 피해자의 휴대전화 전원을 껐다. 이후 정씨는 동대구역 인근 화장실에서 다시 남자 옷으로 갈아입고 자신의 집으로 돌아왔다.경찰은 정씨가 피해자가 다니던 대학에서 강사로 수업을 맡았던 만큼 A씨와 평소 친분은 있는 것으로 보고 있다. A씨는 대학원 수료 후 중국에 취업한 상태로 수료 관련 증서를 받기 위해 한국에 입국했다가 결국 변을 당했다.경찰 관계자는 “정씨를 상대로 구체적인 범행 동기를 파악한 후 살인과 공무집행방해 등의 혐의로 구속 영장을 신청할 계획”이라고 밝혔다.。

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