Over 1,000 Chinese nationals have left Israel amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, the Chinese foreign ministry has stated.

According to AFP, ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said at a press briefing that preliminary statistics stated that the Chinese nationals who have left have either returned to China or gone to a third country.

Mao said 280 Chinese nationals had been stranded in Sderot, a city in southern Israel near Gaza when the conflict first broke out but all have been evacuated.