LATEST ON ISRAEL-GAZA SITUATION
EVACUATION
- Two RAAF planes and one privately contracted flight left Tel Aviv on Sunday with about 250 Australians
- About 1200 Australians and their families have been able to leave Israel
- Another flight is being organised for Monday and could be the last for the foreseeable future as the security situation rapidly changes
- A previous Fijian repatriation flight evacuated 14 Australians
WHAT'S NEXT?
- Australians in Lebanon have been told to reconsider if their need to stay is absolutely essential as the regional security situation remains uncertain
- Foreign Minister Penny Wong is hoping for a humanitarian corridor out of Gaza as Israel enforces a blockade, preventing food, water and fuel from entering the Palestinian territory
QUOTES
"This was no act of war against the army of an enemy, it was the slaughter of innocent people, it was an act of terror - calculated, pitiless brutality. We have learned of acts of violation and humiliation so grotesque they should be beyond imagination but have been made reality by Hamas."
- Prime Minister Anthony Albanese
"As more Jews were killed in this attack than on any single day since the Holocaust, we understand how this brings back that trauma. The attack by Hamas was shocking in its brutality and its scale."
- Foreign Minister Penny Wong
"The Jewish story today is one of survival and it always will be, it's a story of achievement from adversity, of triumph from tragedy."
- Opposition Leader Peter Dutton
"We can only try to imagine and empathise for the pain felt by those directly affected. That pain reverberated around Australia."
- Opposition foreign affairs spokesman Simon Birmingham
"Hamas does not speak for (Palestinians), and Hamas has completely undermined the legitimate aspirations of the Palestinian people."
- Deputy Prime Minister Richard Marles
"It was an assault that targeted civilians. It was an assault that has led to scene of unimaginable horror and devastation."
- Nationals leader David Littleproud
"As the events of the last week have demonstrated all too tragically, anti-Semitism did not end when the Nazis were defeated."
- Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus
INITIAL HAMAS ATTACK
- 1400 civilians murdered.
- 3500 injured.
- As many as 150 taken hostage
