The 39 Filipinos who still remain in war-torn Gaza are expected to cross the Rafah border to Egypt “as soon as possible,” Department of Migrant Workers officer-in-charge Hans Leo Cacdac said Sunday.
The 39 Filipinos who still remain in war-torn Gaza are expected to cross the Rafah border to Egypt “as soon as possible,” Department of Migrant Workers officer-in-charge Hans Leo Cacdac said Sunday.Cacdac, citing data from the Department of Foreign Affairs , said that 71.5% or 98 out of the 137 Filipinos based in Gaza were already evacuated to Egypt, and some of them were already repatriated back to the Philippines.
in the Philippines, for foreigners and medical evacuees, Egyptian sources said.The first batch of Filipinos repatriated from Gaza arrived in the Philippines on Friday. The group was composed of 34 Filipinos and one Palestinian national.The Philippines raised Alert Level 4 in Gaza City in mid-October after war broke out between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas based in Gaza. Alert Level 4 means evacuation for Filipinos there is mandatory.
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