US law requires the repayment. https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/international-travel/emergencies/for-evacuated-citizens.html#:~:text=Procedures for Evacuation%3A&text=U.S. law requires that departure,the cost of their transportation.
Who sez? Who has established a nexus between Hamas and the event in Alexandria? Alexandria is 245 miles (as the crow flies, no less) from Gaza---that's close?
It's fascinating how posters ignorantly expect X to turn on a dime and have instantaneous solutions/resolutions to situations they have absolutely no control over.
It's just not feasible (financially or timewise) to require a proficiency demonstration for every individual that wishes to undertake certain physically taxing excursions---parameters have to be established (age, weight, height, etc.). Go to the zip lines onboard the ships and complain about how they discriminate against the obese.
Underwriting standards are not determined by the outliers--- I'm in the same boat. 69 y.o. Boston marathon qualifier within the past couple of years, and fully expect to be aged out of a desired excursion in the future.
"noun
1.
the unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people"
One can assume the vendors have adequate justification for their decisions.