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The federal government is continuing to support 67 Australians trapped in war-torn Gaza and find a pathway for them to leave, as Israel continues its retaliatory strikes after Hamas militants killed more than 1000 of its citizens.
Late last week, 25 Australians, permanent residents and their family members fled from Gaza into Egypt after being allowed through the Rafah crossing.
Assistant Foreign Affairs Minister Tim Watts, speaking to Sky News on Sunday, said there hasn’t been any further crossings for Australians at the border point since then.
But we think the diplomatic efforts of Qatar, of Eygpt, or the United States in seeking to broker that crossing is something that Australian consular officials, Australian diplomats and Australian foreign ministry officials work very hard at, to try and press for further passage for Australians across that border crossing.
Australia is calling for a pause on airstrikes to get humanitarian support to people in Gaza.
Asked if there was any prospect of further evacuations in the next 24 hours, Watts said it was a rapidly changing situation.
We are pressing very hard because we know how dire the situation is in Gaza.
It really is a very serious humanitarian situation there … that’s also why we’ve been calling for a humanitarian pause to enable that desperately needed humanitarian support to get to the people that need it, safely.
Hundreds of international citizens have been able to cross into Egypt under a deal brokered between the US, Egypt, Israel and Qatar since last week.
The 25 Australians who got out were met by consular officials who organised accommodation and are working on providing them with free commercial flights home.
The Gaza border authority releases a daily list of approved foreign nationals who can leave the besieged strip but Australians have only appeared in the first iteration, and there were none in the list published on Saturday Australian time.
The first list included 34 Australians, permanent residents and their families.
– AAP
16m ago19.44 EDT
Tasmania to be home to SunCable manufacturing facility
SunCable has announced Bell Bay in Tasmania as its preferred location to built an advanced high-voltage subsea cable manufacturing facility.
The company says the construction of the facility will “help solve global supply constraints of HVDC subsea cable” with manufacturing facilities concentrated in the Northern Hemisphere.
SunCable Chief Projects Officer, Chris Tyrrell, said the use of high voltage subsea cables over long distances has a critical…
2023-11-04 18:44:07
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