There is now a 100% stop on all visas for those from Gaza for entry into the United States.
That is according to a State Department announcement while a “full and thorough review” of the process of vetting and issuing those visas moves forward.
Figurative red flags were thrown up by several Congressmen following the spread of viral videos on social media showing Gazans being flown in to several US cities — on Qatari Airways aircraft.
Investigative journalist Laura Loomer initially publicized the videos, which went viral.
The popular X account ‘DataRepublican’ also pushed for the stoppage after digging into questionable connections by the founder of the group responsible for the flights.
In each case, the videos show Gazans deplaning at American airports, having been issued visas by the US State Department.
I want to point out up front that the visas were purportedly issued for medical purposes for a “small number” of children — though that doesn’t seem to be entirely accurate, as we’ll get to in a moment.
Looking for answers after the US said no ‘Palestinian’ refugees would be brought to the US under the Trump Administration, Loomer pushed hard for a response from both Congress and Sec. of State Marco Rubio.
Here’s a post that Loomer shared after the situation was initially addressed by the State Department. (I’m sharing this out-of-order because it summarizes better than anything else the bottom line of what’s going on here, according to Loomer.):
Thank you, Congressman. @RepFine
A group called Heal Palestine is working with Islamic, pro-HAMAS 501c3 tax deductible groups in the United States that are affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood and funded by Qatar to help bring Palestinian GAZANS to the United States.
I just… pic.twitter.com/WY4sjs3ePJ
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) August 15, 2025
As you may be aware, the Muslim Brotherhood’s historic attempts to funnel money to it’s proxy terror groups while funneling pro-Hamas PEOPLE into the United States is not a new thing.
According to Loomer, that’s exactly what is happening in this situation.
Here’s the initial post Loomer shared along with a video of multiple families from Gaza arriving at an airport terminal in San Francisco:
EXCLUSIVE:
Despite the US saying we are not accepting Palestinian “refugees” into the United States under the Trump administration, I have obtained video footage of Palestinians who claim to be refugees from Gaza coming into the United States via San Francisco and Houston, Texas… pic.twitter.com/tV96TOZRi2
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) August 15, 2025
Here’s the full screen version of that video for convenience:
EXCLUSIVE:
Despite the US saying we are not accepting Palestinian “refugees” into the United States under the Trump administration, I have obtained video footage of Palestinians who claim to be refugees from Gaza coming into the United States via San Francisco and Houston, Texas… pic.twitter.com/tV96TOZRi2
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) August 15, 2025
And here is the full text of Loomer’s post, questioning the approval of the visas and calling attention to the possibility of a security threat posed by the visa approvals:
EXCLUSIVE:
Despite the US saying we are not accepting Palestinian “refugees” into the United States under the Trump administration, I have obtained video footage of Palestinians who claim to be refugees from Gaza coming into the United States via San Francisco and Houston, Texas this month. The Palestinians traveled from Gaza to the US with the help of a group called “Heal Palestine”.
How did Palestinians get Visas under the Trump administration to get into the United States? Did @StateDept approve this? How did they get out of Gaza? Is @SecRubio aware of this?
Who from the State Department is assisting “Heal Palestine”?
Why are any Islamic invaders coming into the US under the Trump admin?
ADVERTISEMENTWho approved the visas? How many more are being given visas to come into the US, and why are @GavinNewsom @GregAbbott_TX harboring Palestinian “refugees” in California and Texas?
This is a national security threat. We didn’t vote for more Islamic immigration into the United States.
Who signed off on these visas? They should be fired.
Congressman Randy Fine, whom Loomer reached out to by phone after learning of the visas being issued, shared the State Department’s announcement of the halt.
He also gave credit to Loomer for discovering the possible threat.
In his post, Congressman Fine claimed the Deep State was responsible for the visas being issued against President Trump’s stated agenda.
I am looking forward to a future press conference from Marco Rubio substantiating that claim, if it’s true.
Here’s Rep. Fine’s post:
BREAKING: @realDonaldTrump and @SecRubio have immediately halted visas to Gazans that were being issued by deep state actors while we get to the bottom of how this national security risk was allowed.
Massive credit needs to be given to @LauraLoomer for uncovering this and… https://t.co/YmtXzOh4Ti
— Congressman Randy Fine (@RepFine) August 16, 2025
One key to unravelling the almost IMMEDIATE response to this by the Trump Administration may have to do with the ties that HEAL Palestine — the group bringing these Gazans over — has to another group you may have heard of before.
The Holy Land Foundation was found to be funneling money (among other nefarious things) to groups like Hamas back in the day, with links to terrorism.
And HEAL Palestine’s work bringing Gazans to the US has direct links to the now defunct Holy Land Foundation through one individual: Steve Sosebee.
Steve Sosebee is the FOUNDER of HEAL Palestine, but also has a history of networking similar organizations together — which is what he did with The Holy Land Foundation. (You know… before the U.S. government outlawed it because of terror ties!)
That’s all according to the research of DataRepublican as shared on X:
🚨🕌 U.S. Nonprofit Once Tied to Hamas … Back in Operation? 🕌🚨
I'm making a separate post to explain why this is so serious:
Today, the arrival of Palestinian refugees in the United States made social media rounds, and it was discovered to be the efforts of an organization… pic.twitter.com/8DSha6POS1
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) August 16, 2025
Here’s the full text of that post, connecting those potentially dangerous dots in what is being publicly billed purely as medical visas for kids:
🚨🕌 U.S. Nonprofit Once Tied to Hamas … Back in Operation? 🕌🚨
I’m making a separate post to explain why this is so serious:
Today, the arrival of Palestinian refugees in the United States made social media rounds, and it was discovered to be the efforts of an organization called Heal Palestine.
Heal Palestine is led by Steve Sosebee, the same individual who previously partnered with the now-dismantled Holy Land Foundation (HLF), a U.S.-based charity founded by the Muslim Brotherhood shut down after being convicted of funneling millions of dollars to Hamas.
Sosebee was part of HLF’s fundraising operation.
His role: transport injured Palestinian children to the U.S. for care — explicitly picked to elicit sympathy.
HLF’s role: handle donor outreach, press, and scheduling.
The arrangement: HLF took 60% of the donations; Sosebee took 40%.
ADVERTISEMENTThis was a coordinated financial pipeline to Hamas, a partnership between a U.S. nonprofit and the Muslim Brotherhood’s American fundraising arm.
That was approximately twenty years ago and Sosebee somehow avoided DoJ scrutiny in the Holy Land Foundation case. And now the optics of these Palestinian refugees arriving in the USA are identical.
So, to whom is that 60% going to this time?
And surprise, surprise — it turns out in spite of HEAL Palestine’s stated purpose of bringing in CHILDREN…
They actually bring in far less children, and far more adults, according to this report from United Press International:
A review of medical-humanitarian visa processing temporarily has stopped the State Department from approving visitors’ visas for Gazans as of Saturday.
The State Department announced the halt in visa processing for Gazans after podcaster Laura Loomer on Friday questioned flights that carry injured Gazans needing medical care into the United States, Politico reported on Saturday.
Neither the State Department nor Secretary of State Marco Rubio provided additional information regarding the decision.
The State Department’s decision comes after the Trump administration in June increased its vetting of visa applicants to include social media posts and other online activities by respective applicants.
In the United States, Kent, Ohio-based non-profit HEAL Palestine is sponsoring the evacuation of injured Gazans to obtain medical care in the United States.
HEAL Palestine says it has evacuated 148 Gazans, including 63 children, and brought them to the United States for medical care.
The evacuees are being treated in locations across the nation, including Atlanta, Boston, San Antonio and Seattle and will return to Egypt upon completion of their medical care, the non-profit says.
HEAL Palestine was founded in 2024 and says it primarily helps children between ages 6 and 15, but its numbers show it has brought more adults to the United States than children. (Emphasis added.)
Here’s another video that Loomer helped go viral with more Gazans landing in the US with those State Department issued visas that weren’t SUPPOSED to be happening.
This one shows a similar situation as the one from San Francisco…
Except this time, the Qatari plane is dropping off Gazans in my home state of Texas, in Houston:
NEW:
Here is ANOTHER VIDEO of Palestinians from Gaza arriving in Texas this month.
These GAZANS were sent to Dallas and San Antonio.
In the video below, those GAZANS arrived in Houston.
Texas is being flooded with Palestinian from Gaza by @healpalestine_. The media wants… https://t.co/Z45q2y2m1A pic.twitter.com/94a8ky3dpm
— Laura Loomer (@LauraLoomer) August 16, 2025
And here’s the text from Loomer’s message when she shared that video:
NEW:
Here is ANOTHER VIDEO of Palestinians from Gaza arriving in Texas this month.
These GAZANS were sent to Dallas and San Antonio.
In the video below, those GAZANS arrived in Houston.
ADVERTISEMENTTexas is being flooded with Palestinian from Gaza by
@healpalestine_ . The media wants you to believe these people have nothing, but look at how much luggage they have and how clean their clothes are.If they are “sick”, how were they healthy enough to fly on a plane for 22 hours?
Where did they get the luggage and clothes if they have “nothing”.
Who issued these people visas?
If they have “nothing”, how were they vetted?
Every single American needs to call their representative ASAP on Monday and demand that they tell @marcorubio and the Trump administration to ban all GAZANS from coming into the US.
Whoever issued visas for these people at the State Department should also be fired for creating a national security nightmare and Islamic terror threat. There needs to be an official investigation with all results released to the public.
Cc: @tedcruz @JohnCornyn @KenPaxtonTX @RepBrandonGill @chiproytx @SpeakerJohnson
On the heels of the visa stoppage, DataRepublican also uncovered some ‘funny’ money business.
Apparently, the HEAL Palestine charity operates under a tax declaration far beneath the threshold of funds it is actually laundering — er… I mean “receiving”. (Allegedly, of course.)
Check out those findings:

Here’s the full post with the backstory on those 50K+ grants from DataRepublican:
Heal Palestine (the group who is posting about welcoming Gaza refugees) has EIN 882454707 and filed a 990N for the year 2023. Yet, 990Ns are for charities with revenues under 50K and I found multiple instances of 50K+ grants.
Heal Palestine’s board is full of technocrats … but perhaps most telling is that there is a Mohanned Awad on the board who is publicly declared as bringing “UAE connections to HEAL’s Board.”
Steve Sosebee, the founder of Heal Palestine, also founded the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund (PCRF). They too got an enormous cash influx boost starting in 2023.
Meanwhile, I have to wonder if my recent story on the PAID PROSTESTORS the Dems are using to rile up problems for President Trump on the heels of his crime crackdown in DC is happening in this situation as well?
Here’s my story on that from a few days ago:
Is that same thing happening on this issue as well?
There certainly are a LOT of protests suddenly springing up with tons of pro-Hamas and pro-Palestine participants...
And all right at the same time that President Trump has made clear that he agrees with Israel's intention to completely wipe Hamas out of the Gaza strip, according to the New York Post:
President Trump said Monday that Hamas cannot be allowed to stay in the Gaza Strip due to the horrors of the Oct. 7 terrorist attack — as he weighs the risks of Israel’s looming invasion further into the enclave.
While Trump stopped short of endorsing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to invade and occupy Gaza City, the president agreed that Hamas needed to be exiled from Gaza over the threat the terror group presents to the Jewish state.
“I have one thing to say: remember Oct.7, remember Oct. 7,” Trump told Axios, invoking the infamous 2023 terror attack that killed more than 1,200 people in Israel and saw 250 others kidnapped.
Trump confirmed that he spoke with Netanyahu on Sunday to discuss the Jewish state’s plan to invade Gaza City, with the US president agreeing that military might remains the best way forward to deal with Hamas.
Trump acknowledged fears that the operation could put the remaining 50 hostages in danger, but noted that it was always going to be “very rough to get them” out.
Despite the danger, Trump said he doesn’t believe that Hamas would commit to freeing the captives given the last set of tense cease-fire talks referencing the pause in negotiations between the terror group and Israel.
“[Hamas] are not going to let the hostages out in the current situation,” Trump said.
While the entire situation in Gaza tends to be one of the most polarizing and complicated scenarios on the planet at the moment...
There are a few things that aren't all that complicated.
For one, the Trump Administration promised no 'Palestinian' refugees coming to American soil.
Whether or not the visa issuance was a 'slip up' or something more sinister -- like the "Deep State actors" that Congressman Fine claimed is behind it... time will tell.
But another non-complicated part of all this is how quickly both President Trump and Sec. of State Marco Rubio responded to the possibility of a threat, and took action.
Maybe... there is no threat here?
But the possibility that one exists to the American homeland, and Americans here at home, should be enough to stop the conveyor belt and CHECK to FIND OUT!
And that's exactly what happened -- within HOURS.
Not bad for government work, as my Grandad would have said.
The jury is still out on exactly what is in play here, but that's the story as I understand it to this point.
We'll keep you updated when new information becomes available.



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