The Philippines has called on Israel to avoid civilian targets in Lebanon and not to attack the airport as the government started its efforts to fly home Filipinos there. Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Undersecretary Eduardo Jose de Vega urged the Israeli government on Wednesday, Oct. 9, to...
Israel has assured the safety of foreign civilians, including of Filipinos, there and in other parts of the Middle East as Tel Aviv continues to fight threats from rebel groups Hamas, Hezbollah and Houthi as well as from Iran, which are now spiraling into a regional tension. Israeli Ambassador to...
President Marcos has urged Filipinos in Lebanon and Israel to return to the country while flights are still available amid the tensions in the Middle East. "We hope that you will avail yourselves of our repatriation program while flights are available," Marcos told Filipinos in Lebanon and Israel...
The Philippines has called for restraint in the ongoing conflict in the Middle East and apply proportionality as regional tension that only stemmed from the Israel-Hamas war is now looming. The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) said Friday, Oct. 4, that the Philippines is gravely concerned over...
President Marcos has ordered government agencies to provide a whole-of-government assistance to Filipino workers coming from Lebanon. Every worker is expected to receive about P150,000 financial aid from the Department of Migrant Workers (DWM) and Overseas Workers Welfare Administration...
The Philippine government is having difficulty convincing ​Filipinos in Lebanon to be repatriated ​despite start of Tel Aviv's continued bombard​ment on the country, stoking fear of a regional tension. ​It was not only with Palestine-based Hamas that Israel is in...
Over a thousand Filipinos in Lebanon are up for repatriation to the Philippines amid escalating tension between Israel and Hezbollah fighters that already killed hundreds. Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Assistant Secretary Robert Ferrer said on Tuesday, Sept. 24, that the Philippine Embassy in...
Filipinos in Lebanon were urged to consider leaving the foreign country while commercial flights are still available. The Philippine Embassy in Lebanon made the advisory following the "unprecedented explosions of beepers" in Lebanon on Sept. 17 and 18, which killed 11 people and injured 2,800...
People donate blood for those wounded in pager explosions in Beirut, Lebanon, on Sept. 17, 2024. Eight people were killed, and over 2,800 others, including Hezbollah members, were wounded on Tuesday in different areas of Lebanon as their pagers exploded, said Lebanese Health Minister Firas Abiad....
BACOLOD CITY – The provincial government of Negros Occidental is monitoring the situation of 398 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Lebanon amid the escalating tension between Hezbollah and Israel. THE provincial government of Negros Occidental established a help desk at the Public...
ILOILO CITY – The provincial government of Iloilo is monitoring the status of 65 Ilonggos in Lebanon as tensions between Hezbollah and Israel escalated. A HELP desk at the Iloilo Provincial Capitol in Iloilo City is open to families of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) in the province who might be...
Kabayan Party-list Rep. Ron Salo (Rep. Salo's office) Kabayan Party-list Rep. Ron Salo is calling on all Filipinos in Lebanon to take advantage of the free repatriation being offered amid the rising tensions there. “I urge our kababayans in...
