After a week of war, Palestinians and Israelis have been expressing their concern for their families caught up in the Israel-Hamas war.
Some have already lost family members, while others are still waiting for news of their loved ones.
Mariam Mofeed's two brothers, who are Irish citizens, are in Gaza and she has been trying to get in contact with them.
Mariam said one of her brothers is working 18-hour days in a hospital in Gaza.
"My family is in the north, so they all decided to move. The last call I got from my brother is that they were in the car leaving, taking only the necessary food and medications. I tried to call them but no communication.
"I hope that the only reason for this is that there is no internet or no phone networks at the place where they are. But I don't have any update.
"My brother is Irish. My other brother who is a doctor surgeon, he is Irish as well [he] was born in Dublin. He is living in the hospital since all this all began.
"He works more than 18 hours a day. He's unable to rest, and he can't return home to see his daughters. He's trying to decide whether to keep his wife and daughters in the house, even though he can't be with them, or let them go to the south," Mariam said.
Yara Alagha was born and raised in Ireland. She lost 13 members of her family, ranging in age from one to 61, following an Israeli airstrike in the city of Khan Younis last week.
"The whole family were bunking together [and] were bombed during the carpet bombing of Khan Younis, the town were I come from. I come from Gaza.
Speaking on RTÉ's This Week, Yara said a nine-year-old was among those who died from his injuries shortly after the attack.
"The most recent messages we are receiving from family in Gaza is that they are sticking together in their numbers so that if they were to be bombed, which they believe is inevitable, they would die together. That means no one is left behind to grieve alone," she said.
Yara explained that she got a message from her cousin to say that that he, his wife and young family, who are all Irish citizens, are starving.
"It said '..let the world know we are starving, no water no food no electricity'."
She said she is trying to remain calm as she waits for updates from her family in Gaza.
"The worst part I think is that every night before the sun sets, before the bombing starts, we ring anyone we can to try and get in contact with them to just say our goodbyes.
Human rights lawyer Lara Elborno, who co-hosts a podcast called the Palestine Pod, said the last time she spoke to her uncle in Gaza he told her they had run out of water.
"My own family had some electricity, which is not the case of the majority of people, because they are in a house with solar panels.
"So, they were able to have some electricity and able to use that. My uncle said to me, everybody is sharing what they have right now," Lara said.
'Trying to keep everything as normal as possible'
Stav Rosh is in Ashkelon in southern Israel, which is 14km from Gaza, and said Israelis fear for their safety after last weekend's attacks.
"We don't go out of our house. We stay at home, we're trying like to cook some good food, to make things better.
"But it's really hard because every time you see about another person that is missing or murdered, and a lot of my friends lost family members, my best friend lost her cousin at Nova festival last weekend.
"Also, a lot of my family members also got called up to serve in the army. If there's an alarm, we go inside the shelter.
"And when everything is done, and we hear all the bombs and rockets, we stay home.
"We're just trying to keep everything as normal as possible and trying to lift the morale up. We are volunteering a lot for the army and donating money and food," Stav said.
