A federal judge in Chicago has dismissed a lawsuit that sought to compel the United States government to evacuate Palestinian Arab Americans and their relatives from Gaza during the ongoing conflict. The judge ruled that decisions regarding foreign policy and emergency evacuations fall under the authority of the Executive Branch, not the courts. While expressing sympathy for the plaintiffs' difficult circumstances, the judge noted that the court lacked the means to assess or direct such complex international actions. The ruling also pointed out that the government had already developed an evacuation plan and that the plaintiffs had either been evacuated or declined offers that did not include their immediate family members.