Repatriation efforts para sa halos 300 Pilipino sa Lebanon, inaasahang matuloy sa susunod na Linggo | 24 Oras Weekend

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Military plane ang gamit ng ilang bansa sa pagsundo sa kanilang mga kababayang naiipit sa gulo sa Lebanon. Balak din kaya itong gawin ng Pilipinas sa gitna ng hamon sa pagpapalikas?

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00:00A military plane was used by several countries to attack their countrymen who are now being held in Lebanon.

00:06Is the Philippines also planning to do this in the middle of the afternoon during the evacuation?

00:11Let's find out with JP Soriano's report.

00:17The streets and the broken houses on one side of the road in southern Lebanon are empty.

00:24This is an indication of bombing on the area.

00:27This was taken by Lebanese husband of Lor, a Filipino who has been living there for 30 years.

00:32Some of his countrymen have already fled the area.

00:36We can see the bombs exploding. It's very powerful.

00:41We can see it in our area. It's very powerful.

00:45We moved to a faraway place. I can't sleep at night.

00:51In southern Lebanon, there are almost 300 Filipinos who have joined the repatriation efforts of the Philippine government,

00:58including Lor and her three children.

01:01They want to go home. They want to join me.

01:04But their father won't agree.

01:06The Philippine state is in alert level 3 or voluntary repatriation in Lebanon.

01:11Some Filipinos are ready to go home, but their commercial flights have been cancelled for several days

01:18due to the complicated situation in the surrounding areas of Lebanon.

01:22According to the Undersecretary for Migrant Affairs of the Department of Foreign Affairs,

01:26the repatriation is expected to continue next week.

01:31Starting this coming week, there will be more arriving.

01:36They arrive in vehicles by commercial flights being arranged for by POA.

01:42Remember, it's an all-of-government approach.

01:45Other countries like Spain, Greece, and Colombia are using military planes to evacuate their countrymen from Lebanon,

01:54said the DFA.

01:56We're contacting the DFA, talking if it's possible if they could spare a ship, a military ship, to patrol the area.

02:06Maybe because some ASEAN countries are doing that.

02:09Not necessarily for Lebanon, but maybe for the Houthis.

02:13So that as well, but military plane.

02:16No, we don't have plans for that.

02:18Even so, most of the 11,000 Filipinos who are working or have families in Lebanon want to stay there, according to the DFA.

02:28There's another camp of OFWs who don't want the alert level 4 to be raised

02:32because that would eventually mean they won't be able to return to Lebanon if they are repatriated.

02:38For GMA Integrated News, JP Soriano, Tutok 24 Horas.

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Repatriation efforts para sa halos 300 Pilipino sa Lebanon, inaasahang matuloy sa susunod na Linggo | 24 Oras Weekend

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