Updated: 11.40
No Irish citizens are set to leave Gaza today, the Department of Foreign Affairs has confirmed.
It comes after earlier reports that two Irish dependants were included on a list of 127 names who were set to cross the Rafah border into Egypt.
A dependent could be a person aged between 16 and 18, or under the age of 23 and in full-time education.
It could also mean a person's sponsor is an Irish national, or a person married to an Irish national.
The Palestinian Border Authority published the list that included two Irish dependants, one Moroccan, 31 Palestinians and one Palestinian dependant.
However a spokesperson for the Department of Foreign Affairs has said no Irish citizens will leave today.
"There are an estimated 8000 foreign and dual nationals and immediate dependants in Gaza who are seeking to leave," they said.
A man's hand holding an Irish passport in 2007. Image: Barry Mason / Alamy Stock Photo"The evacuations are being managed country by country on a phased basis. It will take some time for this process to be completed.
"Irish citizens are not included in today's list, but we continue to urgently seek to have Irish citizens included on the list in the coming days," they added.
Egypt has said it will not accept an influx of Palestinian refugees in case Israel stops them returning after the war.
However, in the last few days, Palestinians with foreign passports have been allowed over Gaza's southern border at the Rafah crossing.
Some 342 Palestinians with foreign papers and 42 others crossed on Thursday, the Palestinian Border Authority said, which followed around 400 on Wednesday.
Rafah is Gaza's only gateway to the rest of the world not directly controlled by Israel.
It is under the control of Egypt as part of an agreement with Israel and the European Union.
Split-screen shows US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the US State Department on 2-3-22, and missile strikes through the night in Gaza on 2-11-23. Image: American Photo Archive/Alamy/UNICEF/Eyad El BabaIt comes as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is to push for a humanitarian pause when he visits Israel later.
He will hold talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog, before traveling to Jordan to meet with senior officials.
The hope behind a humanitarian pause is to let more foreign nationals leave while also allowing more aid trucks to enter.
Israel's military says it has encircled Gaza City amid further deaths in the enclave.
At least 20 people were killed on Thursday when a school-turned-shelter was damaged in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, according to the United Nations.
It said four of its shelters had been hit in the last 24 hours.
A patient is treated at the Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Yunis, south of Gaza, on 2-11-23. Image: © WHOFifteen people also died after an airstrike hit a residential building in the the Bureij refugee camp a few miles south of Gaza City, a civil defence spokesperson said.
It happened in the southern zone where Israel has told people to flee, but which has been repeatedly hit.
More than 9,000 Palestinians have now died in less than a month - with 32,000 wounded, according to Gaza's health ministry.
The offensive was launched after Hamas killed more than 1,400 Israelis and kidnapped over 200 in its cross-border attack on October 7th.
Gaza's 2.3 million people are facing crippling shortages of food and water, while hospitals are on the verge of collapse and without critical supplies.
Reporting by: IRN
