ALBAWABA - The Trump administration secretly evacuated a Palestinian woman from the Gaza Strip, describing the operation as an "extraordinary intervention," The Washington Post reported.
The American newspaper said that the Palestinian woman's son serves in the U.S. Navy, and that's why the U.S. administration agreed to secretly evacuate her from Gaza in recent weeks.
The post also added that the operation was done in an extraordinary collaboration between the U.S., Israeli and Jordanian governments.
Israel had to pause in the airstrikes to safeguard the woman's movements, as people familiar with the matter and correspondence reviewed by The Washington Post detailed.
Who is the Palestinian woman?
The Palestinian woman is named Ahlam Firwana, 59, and she managed to leave the enclave safely for $10,000 in donated transportation costs.
Senior U.S. officials were involved and in talks with the governments in Jordan and Israel to secure her departure from the strip as the war entered its second year.
It is worth noting that Firwana’s son, Navy Petty Officer Younis Firwana, 32, joined the military in 2023 seeking a path to U.S. citizenship.
He has six siblings in Gaza, and in 2024, the family’s seven-story home was destroyed in an Israeli attack.
