"A suspicious device was found and we were contacted," a police spokesman told Reuters.
"The building is being evacuated," the spokesman said.
Police called the army’s bomb-disposal team who are investigating the device.
The deputy Irish ambassador said that he spoke to colleagues in Dublin who told him that there was a false alarm.
While a military force did in fact go into the building due to a suspicious package on the premises – which is why some of the embassy staff were evacuated – this was a false alarm and everything is ok.
Israel has recently boosted security at its embassies and other Israeli missions throughout the world in light of Iran and Hezbollah's increased efforts to target Israeli interests abroad to avenge the assassination of top Hezbollah commander Imad Mughniyeh and of four Iranian nuclear scientists.
The hits were attributed to Israel.
It is estimated that the last attack carried out by Iran and the Hezbollah was in Burgas Bulgaria where five Israeli tourists and a local bus driver were killed when a terrorist exploded on a bus at the airport, the person who carried out the attack has not yet been identified.
Suspects were recently arrested in Cyprus and Kenya over suspicions they were planning attacks on Israeli targets.
Since the beginning of the year authorities have identified three Iranian attempts to carry out terror attacks against Israelis. In one case an explosive device intended for the Israeli embassy was discovered before it could be used.
An Iranian plot to carry out an attack on Thailand failed while an attack in New Delhi was successful when Tali Koren Yehoshua, wife of an Israeli embassy security official was injured when a device was attached to her car.
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