Adam Hamawy, from Princeton, N.J., is among a team of doctors from the Palestinian American Medical Association that was blocked from leaving Gaza on Monday.

The Biden administration is working to get a group of U.S. doctors out of Gaza after Israel closed the Rafah border crossing, the White House said on Wednesday. The State Department said earlier this week that the government was aware that American doctors were unable to leave Gaza,

Duckworth said Tuesday she's in direct contact with Hamawy and is “working hard to secure his group’s immediate evacuation.”

The American doctor who helped save U.S. Sen. Tammy Duckworth’s life 20 years ago said from Gaza that it’s his life and the lives of other doctors that are now at risk if they try to leave the compound where they are trapped.