Government declines to comment on media claims that Irish person is a Hamas hostage

Foreign Affairs Minister Micheál Martin has been in contact with his counterparts in the Middle East since the outbreak of violence in early October. File photo: Colin Keegan, Collins
The Government has declined to comment on Iranian claims that an Irish person is being held hostage by Hamas in Gaza.
Foreign Affairs Minister Micheál Martin has been in contact with his counterparts in the Middle East since the outbreak of violence in early October. He spoke to the Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian over the weekend, with the official Iranian read-out of the call saying that the two had discussed "current developments in West Asia, especially the Gaza genocide and the ongoing aggression by the Zionist regime".