The Australian government has helped two more people flee Gaza into Egypt, a day after more than 20 Australians left the besieged Palestinian enclave.
"We continue to engage closely with partners in the region to ensure the remaining Australians in Gaza who wish to leave are able to do so as soon as possible," they said. "As we continue working to stop this war we cannot ignore the wider context and the necessity to turn down the regional temperature that is approaching a boiling point,""The risk of regional spillover and further escalation is real, as well as the risk that extremist groups will take advantage of the situation to advance ideologies that will keep us locked in cycles of violence.
Relations between Israel and Iran are never great, but things are especially tense in the wake of the Hamas-led attack on October 7. COGAT did not immediately return a request for information on the number of Gazans working inside IsraelAn Adelaide father who escaped Gaza with his wife and two children says he fears for his other family members who remain trapped there.
More than 800 people have been able to leave Gaza via the Rafah crossing under a deal brokered between the US, Egypt, Israel and Qatar. This came hours after the lower house of its parliament made a series of claims about relations between the two countries.The Bahraini statement did not say that the country had severed diplomatic and economic ties despite an earlier assertion by Bahrain's lower house of parliament.Bahrain was one of several Arab nations that diplomatically recognised Israel in 2020.Those ties have been strained by the war.
US officials have said 10 Americans who remain unaccounted for may be among the more than 200 people taken as hostages into Gaza, where they are believed to be held inLabor minister Ed Husic has told ABC News Breakfast he believes words like genocide need to be used carefully in regards to the Israel-Gaza war.
He said the international community was "watching very closely" and he believed there had to be a more strategic way to hold Hamas to account."I think a lot of us are deeply concerned about not only the impact on innocent Palestinians but particularly on kids being affected and losing their lives in this way.
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