The diplomats and 42 family members left amid growing tension over Canada’s assertion that India was complicit in the killing of a Sikh leader in British Columbia.
The staunch support for Israel has stoked accusations of American hypocrisy, with Arab critics fearing a wholesale massacre of Palestinians in response to the deadly Hamas attacks.
Told they could escape Gaza, scores of people with foreign passports gathered at the only border crossing into Egypt, only to find it still closed, as diplomatic efforts floundered.
As bombs fall and phone batteries run low, Palestinian American families caught in the Israel-Hamas war wonder whether the U.S. government will help them escape.