Irish diplomats ‘urgently’ seeking for citizens trapped in enclave to be included in future evacuations, Department says
People walk through a gate to enter the Rafah border crossing to Egypt in the southern Gaza Strip on November 1st. Photograph: Mohammed Abed/AFP via Getty
Irish diplomats are “urgently” seeking to have Irish people trapped in Gaza included in future evacuations across the border, a Department of Foreign Affairs spokesman said on Wednesday. Diplomats based in embassies in Cairo and Tel Aviv were in “constant communication” with authorities in Egypt and Israel, raising the cases of Irish people stuck in Gaza, he said.
Almost 9,000 people, including more than 3,600 children, have been killed in Gaza since Israel began its attacks on October 7th, according to health authorities in the Hamas-run enclave. Israel mounted its offensive after 1,400 people were killed and more than 200 hostages taken, most of them civilians, when some 3,000 Hamas fighters crossed the border and infiltrated into 22 Israeli border communities.
Israeli forces aim to divide the Gaza Strip, separating the northern area of the enclave, including Gaza City, from the remainder.
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