A second group of students from Gaza have arrived in Ireland this morning to begin their studies at four universities here.
The 14 students are the latest to be evacuated from Gaza in an operation supported by the Department of Foreign Affairs.
They got out of Gaza on Wednesday night and travelled by bus into Jordan and on to its capital, Amman.
From there they flew to Istanbul in Turkey and from there travelled to Dublin on a Turkish Airlines flight that touched down this morning.
Three weeks ago, 50 students from Gaza arrived in Ireland in three groups on flights over three days.
All of the evacuations are the result of a complex and sensitive operation which took place over a number of months and involved securing permission to leave Gaza and transit through Israel from the Israeli authorities, as well as entry permissions from Jordan.
Ireland has taken a lead among European countries in its efforts to bring students from Gaza to Ireland.
It has offered visas to, and managed the evacuation of, more students than any other European country, according to sources close to the operation.
Leaving Gaza on Wednesday night, alongside the students coming to Ireland were 33 others who have secured places at UK universities but who had been waiting for news of how they might get out. This group of students will become the first to have been evacuated by the UK since the current war began.
The Department of Foreign Affairs, the Department of Further and Higher Education, and a number of universities have all been working over the summer months to get the students out of Gaza and to ensure they are supported in Ireland both financially and otherwise.
As was the case with the last groups, the young people arriving today were expected to be taken airside to a special facility where their health needs could be assessed and supported.
In an operation led by Trinity College, 11 Irish universities have been involved.
They include SETU, UCD, UL and Mary Immaculate College in Limerick, University of Galway, Maynooth University, ATU, RCSI, TU Dublin and DCU.
The universities have all waived fees for the students and have raised considerable funds to support them here. All of the funding has come from independent non-government sources.
Donations have been received via university foundations and other formal structures from both Irish and international contributors, including anonymous donors.
"The amount of goodwill has been breathtaking", Dr Emma Stokes, Vice President for Global Engagement at Trinity College said.
But there are many more students in Gaza who are desperate to get out. The numbers were described by another person who spoke to RTÉ News as "an avalanche".
Speaking on RTÉ News at One Dr Stokes said it has been a "privilege" to be involved in the operation.
"It's an enormous tribute to so many parts of our society...and to the students themselves," she said.
"They universities have worked incredibly closely together, in a way that has been unprecedented."
She said it must be "unimaginably difficult" for the students to leave their families for another country so they can study in safety and she praised the role of the Department of Foreign Affairs, whose diplomatic corps "brilliantly managed" the evacuation.
Dr Stokes said the students that arrived at Easter and a small number who came last year "have had a period of time to recover from the trauma and the loss that they have left behind".
However, a group who arrived a few weeks ago and those who landed today are "hitting the ground running" because the semester and teaching term has started.
"We are making sure that every support that is needed for these students is in place, but we're also learning as we go along," she said.
"These are students who have left a genocide."
Other universities internationally are now contacting colleges here to ask for advice as to how to manage the arrival of traumatised students from Gaza. But doing this is a huge learning curve for the Irish universities too.
Dr Stokes said the learning is being led by those students.
