TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — An Iranian missile slammed into the main hospital in southern Israel early Thursday, wounding people and causing extensive damage, according to the medical facility. Israeli media aired footage of blown-out windows and heavy black smoke. Separate Iranian strikes hit a...
A Filipino worker recalled the ordeal of having to evacuate his residence in Israel because of a missile attack from Iran, lamenting how at least three of the shelters he initially went to were already full of people trying to stay safe from the escalating conflict between the long-standing...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department has begun evacuating nonessential diplomats and their families from the U.S. embassy in Israel as hostilities between Israel and Iran intensify and President Donald Trump warns of the possibility of getting directly involved in the conflict. A government...
Amid the escalation conflict between Israel and Iran, the 21 Philippine government officials who were in a study program in Israel were safely evacuated through neighboring Jordan, the Philippine Embassy in Amman said. In a statement on late Wednesday night, June 18, the embassy said the 21...
BACOLOD CITY – The provincial government of Negros Occidental is prepared to assist overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) caught in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Iran. Gov. Eugenio Jose Lacson said on Tuesday, June 17, that the Public Employment Service Office (PESO) has activated its OFW...
Recognizing that the ongoing tensions between Israel and Iran would eventually hit oil prices, President Marcos said fuel subsidies will be given to those who will be heavily affected. The government, Marcos said, will replicate what it did during the Covid-19 pandemic, where fuel subsidies were...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Israeli warplanes pounded Iran 's capital overnight and into Wednesday, hitting a facility used to make uranium centrifuges and another that made missile components, the Israeli military said. It said it intercepted 10 missiles overnight as Iran 's...
Some 18 Filipinos are now staying in a temporary facility after the hotel they were working at was hit by an Iranian missile, the Philippine Embassy in Tel Aviv said. In a Facebook post, published on Tuesday night, June 17, showed Philippine Ambassador to Tel Aviv Aileen Mendiola-Rau visiting the...
There is no need for mandatory repatriation yet for Filipinos amid the conflict between Israel and Iran, President Marcos said. Marcos said they leave it to the families to decide whether or not they would seek evacuation or repatriation. “No, not yet. We generally leave it to each individual,...
The deputy head of Israel’s agency for international development cooperation clarified that the 17 Filipino officials are not stranded in Israel and that they are expected to be back in the Philippines this week. In a Radyo Pilipinas interview, MASHAV Deputy Head Ambassador Irit Savion...
ILOILO CITY — Western Visayas Regional Director Juan Jovian Ingeniero of the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) are among the 17 government officials currently trapped in Israel after Iran’s retaliatory attacks. Ingeniero was seen in one of the photos initially released by...
President Marcos has directed the Department of Energy (DOE) to closely monitor the impacts of the ongoing tensions in the Middle East on fuel prices in the country. Marcos told the DOE to monitor closely in order to provide the necessary government intervention if the situation worsens and...
