The Latest Breaking News from Rafah

Michael Martin has expressed confidence that the majority of Irish passport holders will have left the enclave in the coming days.

Despite the dire need for humanitarian aid in Gaza, there would be no deliveries across the Rafah border crossing from Egypt on Friday, according to the communications director for the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees

Around 35 to 40 Irish passport holders remain in the enclave.

Indian woman Lubna Nazir Shaboo and her daughter safely reach Egypt from Gaza after Indian missions in the region help with their evacuation. They crossed Rafah border crossing and move to Cairo. Indian missions in Ramallah, Tel Aviv and Cairo helped make evacuation possible.

IDF forces say they are targeting Hamas ‘in a certain part of the Shifa hospital’ after Gaza’s health ministry said it was warned by Israel that it would raid the facility ‘within minutes’

Thousands trapped inside main Gaza hospital surrounded by Israeli military; Joe Biden calls for al-Shifa hospital to be ‘protected’

Hundreds of foreign nationals have exited Gaza through the Rafah crossing, but some Palestinian Egyptians are stranded.

Andrew Mitchell also stressed the need for ‘effective humanitarian pauses’ in the Israel-Hamas conflict.

An Australian family of three has fled the violence-stricken Gaza Strip through the Rafah border into Egypt, but another 76 Australians remain in the war-zone.