ILOILO CITY – Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) from this city and Iloilo province are being monitored as tensions escalate between Israel and Hamas. A HELP desk at the Iloilo provincial capitol is open to families of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) affected by the conflict in Israel. (Tara...
SAN JACINTO, Pangasinan (PNA) – The family of Marjorette Garcia, the Filipino worker killed by her co-employee in Saudi Arabia, received various benefits and cash grants from national government agencies and the provincial government on Saturday, October 14. Department of Migrant Workers...
BACOLOD CITY (PNA) – The Negros Occidental provincial government has assured help for families of Negrenses needing assistance in the war-torn Israel. ALACRE This includes the relatives of Loreta Alacre, who was identified as among the Filipino fatalities as confirmed on Friday, October 13,...
BINMALEY, Pangasinan (PNA) – The family of Angelyn Aguirre, the caregiver who, along with her 70-year-old employer, was killed by militant Hamas during a shock assault near the Gaza Strip over the weekend still can’t believe she is gone. Erlinda, Angelyn’s mother, in a media interview on...
Most of the Filipinos in Gaza have sought repatriation while some in Israel also now want to leave the country as war between Israeli forces and Hamas militants still rages. Difficulties to leave the Hamas-controlled Gaza face the 92 Filipinos who want to leave the territory as it remains sealed...
A third Filipino in Israel has been confirmed dead while more Filipinos in the besieged Gaza now want to flee from the Israel-Hamas war, prompting the government to seek help from the international community. Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Undersecretary Eduardo Jose de Vega said Friday, Oct....
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) on Friday, Oct. 13 said it is prepared to assist Filipino migrant workers who will be repatriated from Israel and Palestine due to the escalating conflict between the Israeli government and Hamas militants. DSWD Secretary Rex Gatchalian has...
Israel is not yet considering opening any humanitarian corridor for foreign nationals wanting to leave Gaza amid challenges from Philippine officials to get Filipinos out of the Palestinian territory. Esty Buzgan, the Chargé d'Affaires of the Israeli Embassy in Manila, said Thursday the Israeli...
ILOILO CITY — The provincial government of Iloilo has reactivated a help desk to help Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) and their families in war-torn Israel. A HELP desk at the Iloilo provincial capitol is open to families of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) affected by the conflict in Israel....
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has not seen the need yet to impose Alert Level 4 status or mandatory repatriation of Filipinos in Israel. According to DFA Undersecretary Eduardo Jose de Vega, the Alert Level 4 status is only “called when the country has broken down and the rule of law...
Senator Risa Hontiveros on Wednesday, October 11 urged the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) to prepare for the repatriation of Filipinos as the tension escalates further in war-torn Israel. Sen. Risa Hontiveros (Senate PRIB Photo) At the...
President Marcos will talk to the family of one of the Filipinos slain in the Israel-Hamas war, Philippine Ambassador to Israel Junie Laylo said Wednesday, Oct. 11. Laylo said the Philippine embassy already coordinated with the victim's family and the President will do next. "I spoke to the wife of...
