DMW: More OFWs returning home
The Philippines will be sending more teams to Israel to work on the rescue and repatriation of Filipinos affected by the armed conflict between Israel and the Hamas terror group.
Daily TribuneThe Philippines will be sending more teams to Israel to work on the rescue and repatriation of Filipinos affected by the armed conflict between Israel and the Hamas terror group.
A fourth batch of repatriated Filipinos — composed of 32 hotel workers, 28 caregivers, and 59 other workers, including four infants — is scheduled to arrive in the country from Israel by Monday, Department of Migrant Workers officer-in-charge Hans Cacdac said.
Cacdac, in a forum Saturday, said the Philippines will be sending more teams to Israel to work on the rescue and repatriation of Filipinos affected by the armed conflict between Israel and the Hamas terror group.
An augmentation team, he said, will be deployed particularly to southern Israel near the Gaza border as most overseas Filipino workers had been brought to much safer ground, away from the war-torn center.
The Israel Defense Forces said the Hamas group "operates within and hides beneath" Shifa Hospital, the largest medical facility in Gaza.
Cacdac said the Israel-Gaza border was declared a "no entry zone" by the IDF. He did not give further details on the locations of rescue areas where the OFWs had been taken.
Citing the latest DMW records, Cacdac said the families of around 770 Filipinos have contacted the Philippine government's helplines to locate their relatives in Israel, with 768 of them accounted for while two are still missing.
"The Philippine government has coordinated with the Israel Defense Forces to locate those who remain unaccounted for," he said.
Meanwhile, Cacdac revealed that 124 OFWs in Lebanon have sought repatriation amid the conflict going on across the Lebanese border.
"The government is working to send home the first batch of OFWs from that country," he said.
With Gilmore Leaño
