Senator Risa Hontiveros has urged the government to consider imposing mandatory repatriation of Filipinos from Israel and Iran as the conflict between the two countries continue. Hontiveros made the call even after President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. thumbed down calls to enforce...
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...
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...
Senate Minority Leader Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III on Tuesday, June 17 called on the Marcos administration to remain neutral even as the conflict between Israel and Iran escalates. Pimentel said the best that the Philippine government can do as Israel and Iran continue to trade strikes is...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Israel appeared to be expanding its air campaign on Tehran five days after its surprise attack on Iran 's military and nuclear program, as U.S. President Donald Trump posted an ominous message warning residents of the city to evacuate. IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A...
