Nearly two weeks ago, three injured Palestinian children from Gaza arrived in San Francisco for medical treatment.

Now, the program that brought them here is in jeopardy, after the U.S. State Department suspended visitor visas for people from Gaza.

The department said Saturday on the social media platform X that it would stop all visitor visas from Gaza to conduct “a full and thorough review of the process and procedures” used to issue temporary medical-humanitarian visas.

The decision has drawn condemnation from Bay Area advocates and officials, who say countless children awaiting lifesaving care are now stuck in limbo.

“It is outlandish beyond belief that in the Trump administration’s ongoing Israel-first policies and targeting of immigrants that they would then turn their attentio

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