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(SDN) — A number of overseas Filipino workers in Israel have asked for repatriation, said Administrator Pattricia Caunan, head of the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA).
She revealed this on in an interview Wednesday morning on come-backing DZMM radio and TV.
The OFWs’ desire to be sent back home came after Zionist Israel attacked unprovoked on Friday, June 13, the Islamic Republic of Iran.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the unprovoked attack a la Nazi blitzkrieg, giving the rational that Iran was about to develop nuclear weapons, which he has been claiming for decades. Without an iota of proof.
Netanyahu, a wanted Jew for his “genocidal” war against the Palestinian people in Gaza in a warrant of arrest the United Nations International Criminal Court (ICC) issued in November 2024, along with former Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant and Hamas leaders, alleging “war crimes and crimes against humanity” for the slaughter of thousands of Palestinian infants, babies, children and women.
The Israeli attack involved the use of 200 fighter jets, targeting Iranian scientists, military commanders, and other leaders. Iran retaliated, unleashing ballistic missiles and drones on Tel Aviv and other cities, giving Israelis a taste of what their government continues to commit in Gaza.
Caunan said in the interview that 85 OFWs requested repatriation before Israel’s attack and 65 others asked that they be sent home after the attack.
She said the possible route would be the Kingdom of Jordan, while also looking at Egypt. Both countries have borders with Israel, which netizens now dubbed “IsraHell” for waging a series of attacks on Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and now the Islamic Republic founded in 1979 by the late Ayatollah Rohullah Khomeini, ousting Shah Reza Pahalavi.
“There are 85 who want to go come (before the war in Iran), but with the ongoing conflict 65 also want to come home,” says Caunan.
Israel kills 51 Palestinian civilians in a crowd awaiting food aid
Fielding questions from broadcast journalist Alvin Elchico, she said the government in coordination with other government agencies can send home the OFWs in a week’s time, feeling confident. She emphasized the repatriation process is already being done.
Some of the OFWs, she added, are in bomb shelters, in embassy accommodation, and in other locations with some others still with their employers. She revealed that at 2 a.m. Manila time Wednesday OWWA was talking with some of the OFWs.
She said OWWA can easily be contacted through Facebook or Messenger 24/7.
According to the Philippine Embassy in Israel as cited by Inquirer.net, there are around 31,000 Filipinos working and living legally in the Jewish nation, but to include undocumented persons may total 50,000 located in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Haifa while a big number of them are employed in Beersheba, Netanya, Rehovot, and Rishon LeZion.
The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on the other hand, reported at least four Filipinos injured in Rehovot and brought to hospital in as Iran unleashed retaliatory missiles and drones.
As this developed, Israel Defense Force (IDF) tanks fired on June 17 on Palestinians awaiting food aid, killing 51 civilians in another unprovoked atrocity, demonstrating Netanyahu targeting civilians while complaining that Iran was targeting civilians.
Netanyahu also targets media workers in Gaza and West Bank, and now in Iran, bombing the Iranian broadcasting network IRIB, killing two, “news editor Nima Rajabpour and secretariat worker Masoumeh Azimi — and injured several others, according to state-affiliated media” as cited by Arab News. It is the Israeli pattern of killing the truth, according to observers, by silencing the media to black out IDF atrocities.
In the same DZMM interview, foreign policy expert Prof. Renato de Castro noted Israeli’s infiltration of Mossad spies in Iran, as they established a drone making factory. Iran later was able to identify the Mossad drone hub and stopped it.
De Castro said Israel and other countries like China can do that to the Philippines, infiltrating the country. He cited the Chinese spy ring the Philippine authorities had busted recently. — Jigger Gomez (/)