The evacuation of Filipinos in Gaza is now mandatory, after the Department of Foreign Affairs raised yesterday Alert Level 4 over the area amid ongoing airstrikes and a deepening crisis.
“The Department of Foreign Affairs wishes to inform the public that, due to the current situation in Gaza, we have placed Gaza under Alert Level 4 ,” the DFA said in a statement.
De Vega said on Thursday that dozens of Filipinos trapped in the Palestinian enclave have “no way in and no way out.” Israel said more than 1,300 citizens and foreigners had been brutally massacred by Hamas, and that roughly 2,500 terrorists entered the country. They said Gaza is on the brink of running out of food, water, electricity and critical supplies. No aid can come in from the outside for the 2.3 million residents of the sealed-off enclave.
According to reports, the current conflict, which is expected to escalate further, has claimed at least 2,400 lives. More than 100 Israelis and foreign nationals, including children and older persons, are being held hostage in Gaza.Sen. Imee Marcos said yesterday overseas Filipino workers who can go home should be able to go home.
TUCP vice president Luis Corral said concerned government agencies must work “triple-time” to operationalize a contingency plan with definitive timelines for the repatriation of Filipinos from Gaza and Israel. TUCP also hailed the heroic sacrifice of OFW Angelyn Aguirre who refused to abandon her elderly patient in a bomb shelter amid the Israel-Hamas conflict.
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