Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 September 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade

Engagement with UNRWA Deputy Director John Whyte

2:00 am

Mr. John Whyte:

On all sides. What is available is a small amount of Gaza city, which is now being encircled, and the coastal strip further down in the middle area in Khan Yunis, a place called al-Mawasi which is basically a sandy area. It is just sand. It was mainly agricultural before the war and now it is just full of people. They have nowhere else to go. There is a military cordon and while there is no sign saying "Do not go beyond here", they know that the chances of being shot if they venture too far south, east or north are real. That is the reality.

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