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US to screen social media of visa applicants who spent time in Gaza

The seal of the United States Department of State is seen in Washington, DC, United States, on January 26, 2017 [Joshua Roberts/Reuters]

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered the State Department to review the social media accounts of foreign applicants for United States visas who have visited the Gaza Strip in the past 18 years, according to an internal cable seen by the Reuters news agency.

The cable covers all immigrant and non-immigrant US visas – including students and tourists – of people who have spent “any length of time in an official or diplomatic capacity” in Gaza on or after January 1, 2007.

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