People block a road as they protest, calling for a deal for the immediate release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by Hamas, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg) TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — A rare call for a general strike in Israel to protest the failure to...
BACOLOD CITY – A 60-year-old farmer held his 51-year-old live-in partner hostage at gunpoint after she refused to sign documents for a land transfer in Barangay Prosperidad, San Carlos City, Negros Occidental on Saturday night, June 15. Police Lt. Col. Nazer Canja, San Carlos police chief, said...
CEBU CITY – A distraught man was arrested after he held his family hostage on Monday morning, April 22, in Barangay Tisa here. Police said the 42-year-old suspect was armed with an aluminum pipe when he took his 39-year-old wife and their two children, aged 11 and six, hostage inside their house....
The Philippines is currently letting “quiet diplomacy” to do its work for the possible release of 17 Filipino seafarers held hostage by Houthi rebels in the Red Sea. Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Undersecretary Eduardo Jose de Vega disclosed this on Saturday, Dec. 9, as the Philippine...
​The Philippine government is working on the release of 17 Filipino seafarers who were taken hostage by Houthi rebels in the Red Sea. According to the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), "efforts are ongoing for this to happen as soon as possible" after President Marcos on Thursday made a...
President Marcos has canceled his scheduled trip to Dubai for the World Climate Action Summit (COP28) due to developments involving the 17 Filipino seafarers taken hostage in the Red Sea. President Ferdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr. (Malacañang photo) Marcos made the announcement an hour before his...
Jimmy Pacheco, one of the two Filipinos freed by Hamas, said it was in Gaza where he learned to save money because every cent counts in the war-torn Palestinian territory. That was the lesson he wanted to impart to his fellow overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) as he looked back on the past 49 days he...
​The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has expressed gratitude to the governments of Qatar, Israel and Egypt for their efforts that led to the release of another Filipino who remained unaccounted for after Hamas' attack over a month ago. DFA thanked the State of Qatar for mediating in the...
House Speaker Martin Romualdez (left), President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. (Speaker’s office) House Speaker Martin Romualdez has commended on Wednesday, Nov. 29 the Marcos administration for successfully effecting the release of the two...
The second Filipino freed by Hamas after being taken hostage is now undergoing medical evaluation in the hospital. The Israeli Embassy in the Philippines said Wednesday, Nov. 29, that Noralin Babadilla, a 60-year-old Filipina with Israeli citizenship abducted to Gaza, was brought to...
President Marcos announced that all Filipinos affected by the ongoing war between Israeli forces and Hamas have now all been "accounted for" following the release of Noralyn Babadilla from Gaza on Nov. 29 (Manila time). Photo from Jerusalem Post via @bongbongmarcos/X (Twitter) In his X (formerly...
The Filipino national who was released by Hamas after being abducted to Gaza said he thought of his family to keep himself strong throughout the 49 days he spent in captivity. Jimmy Pacheco told Philippine Ambassador to Israel Junie Laylo Jr., who received him upon his release on Saturday, Nov. 25,...
