{"id":287474,"date":"2026-02-08T15:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T15:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/287474\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T15:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T15:34:15","slug":"a-group-of-seven-palestinian-children-have-arrived-in-ireland-to-receive-medical-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/287474\/","title":{"rendered":"A group of seven Palestinian children have arrived in Ireland to receive medical care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fm104.ie\/news\/fm104-news\/\" class=\"c-btn c-btn--small c-btn--secondary-fill\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>        All FM104 News<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aiir-c-news-figure__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/69889308367d5.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><br \/>\n                                    Image via Getty Images <\/p>\n<p class=\"aiir-c-news-article__abstract\">\n<p>The children are being housed in accommodation managed by the Irish Red Cross, and will undergo medical assessments with teams from Children\u2019s Health Ireland.\n        <\/p>\n<p>In what the Health Minister Jennifer Carroll-McNeil described as a lengthy and complex operation, these children made their way to Ireland with the support of Jordan and Norway, who laid on a special flight to get the patients here.<\/p>\n<p>This is in response to an appeal from the World Health Organization (WHO) to address the health needs of people from Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>This is the fifth medical evacuation from Gaza to Ireland, bringing the total number of children treated here to 27 since September 2024.<\/p>\n<p>On a per capita basis, it means Ireland ranks third behind Malta and Norway in terms of the number of children it has evacuated from Gaza for health care.<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/onic-player\/id6747436925?ppid=9a0d5cd8-6997-43a3-8721-1e4cc9244dd1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/68da98f493cd3.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All FM104 News Image via Getty Images The children are being housed in accommodation managed by the Irish&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287475,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[26625,615,26622,26620,26621,61,60,26626,26627,43,26624,5596,26623],"class_list":{"0":"post-287474","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-104-drive","9":"tag-dublin","10":"tag-dublin-radio-station","11":"tag-fm104","12":"tag-fm104-homepage","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-job-finder","16":"tag-listen-live","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-phoneshow","19":"tag-podcast","20":"tag-strawberry-alarm-clock"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}