{"id":288409,"date":"2026-01-17T00:35:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T00:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/288409\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T00:35:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T00:35:16","slug":"i-feel-my-heart-has-been-split-in-two-gazan-women-in-ireland-plead-for-husbands-to-be-evacuated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/288409\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I feel my heart has been split in two\u2019 \u2013 Gazan women in Ireland plead for husbands to be evacuated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Most of the medically evacuated families were reunited in October, but three fathers remain trapped in Gaza\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ghada Nabil Abdul Rahim Barakat with her daughter, Jouri. Photo: Gerry Mooney\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/stinian mothers 003.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Ghada Nabil Abdul Rahim Barakat with her daughter, Jouri. Photo: Gerry Mooney<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Three fathers remain trapped in Gaza while their wives and children \u2013 some of whom are facing complex, ongoing medical treatment in Ireland \u2013 wait for a reunion that has not come.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Families and volunteers have again appealed to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to help bring the men to Ireland, warning the separation is compounding trauma for children already recovering from life\u2011changing injuries and illnesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Most of the medically evacuated families were reunited in October, but three fathers remain trapped in Gaza Ghada&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[9,10,13169,13,14,68,6,71,11,12,2188,15,16,5,72,7,8,65,66,67],"class_list":{"0":"post-288409","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-department-of-justice","11":"tag-featured-news","12":"tag-featurednews","13":"tag-gaza","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-israel","16":"tag-latest-news","17":"tag-latestnews","18":"tag-laura-lynott","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-news","22":"tag-palestine","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories","25":"tag-world","26":"tag-world-news","27":"tag-worldnews"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115907639669216014","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}