Los Angeles Families Trapped In Middle East As Military Actions Escalate

CBS Los Angeles

March 4, 2026

In the days after the U.S. and Israel launched joint airstrikes on Iran, killing their supreme leader and starting what could be more than a month of military action in the Middle East, some Los Angeles-area families are struggling to find their way home.

After the strikes, the U.S. Department of State urged the roughly one million Americans in 14 countries in the Middle East to leave as the fighting intensified, but many are finding that easier said than done.

Rabbi Yossi Malka, who has two sons in Israel, one of whom is in the army, and the other who is in school, says that they're among the hundreds of thousands scrambling to get back home.

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