Men carry children as they walk past a puddle of water by the rubble of a collapsed building in the Nasr neighbourhood in western Gaza City. AFP
"After months of being stuck in Gaza, a group of 24 Germans and their family members were able to leave Gaza today in close coordination with the Israeli authorities," a spokeswoman for the foreign ministry said.
Nine members of the group are understood to be German citizens, while the rest are Palestinian family members.
The group was taken by bus through Israel and the West Bank to Jordan, where they will take a flight to Germany, the spokeswoman said.
Foreign ministry spokesman Christian Wagner had earlier told journalists that "roughly two dozen" Germans were leaving the territory.
He added that there remained "a small, single-digit number" of other Germans whom the authorities were aware of in Gaza and who wished to leave.
Wednesday's evacuation was the third carried out by Germany since the closure of the Rafah border crossing in May 2024.
In total, the German government has enabled almost 700 Germans and their family members to leave Gaza since October 7, 2023.
Earlier this month Germany said that 19 of its citizens and 14 of their relatives had been evacuated from Gaza.
Israel has resumed intense aerial and ground assaults after a ceasefire deal that came into effect on January 19 fell apart two months later over differences regarding its next phase.
Hundreds of thousands of people have since been displaced in the territory, and Israel's Defence Minister Israel Katz said Wednesday that his country would keep blocking humanitarian aid from entering the territory.
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