Fears are rising for Australians stranded in the Palestinian enclave as a deal over setting up a “humanitarian corridor” allowing foreign nationals to leave falters.
Fears are rising for the fate of 45 Australians stranded in Gaza as a stalemate continues over opening the lone border crossing into Egypt and safe haven.
Aid supplies seen in North Sinai, Egypt, on Monday. The aid convoy, organised by a group of Egyptian NGOs, set off on Monday from Cairo for the Gaza-Egypt border crossing at Rafah.Egypt has been wary about opening the crossing because of the risk of an influx of Palestinian refugees into the Sinai. Israeli airstrikes in the southern part of Gaza near the crossing dashed hopes it could be safely reopened.
“It brings, in total, to about 700 people we’ve assisted leave Israel on these flights, just under 600 of whom are Australians,” he said.“We believe that these flights do meet the immediate demand on the part of Australians to leave Israel. That said, we are keeping a couple of Air Force planes in the region as a contingency over the coming days.”
“We should also say there are 10,000 Australians who call Israel home and live in Israel. There are a lot of them who are dual citizens. What that means is that there’s a whole lot of people in the Australian Jewish community here in Sydney, Melbourne, elsewhere in the country who have friends and relatives and I’ve met a number of them who are really hurting at this moment.“I mean, this is an issue which is reverberating around the world, clearly, but it’s reverberating into Australia as well.
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