CHED Chairperson Prospero De Vera said that they are now coordinating with the Department of Migrant Workers to extend financial help to the families left behind by the four OFWs.
Three of the four Filipinos who died in the Israel-Hamas conflict worked as caregivers in Israel, while one was a nurse, according to the Department of Foreign Affairs . The DFACHED is eyeing to provide either tuition-free or subsidized schooling through the Universal Access to Quality Tertiary Education law to the slain OFWs’ dependents.
An estimated 30,000 Filipinos reside in Israel, with most living outside the conflict area in the southern region near the Gaza Strip. Meanwhile, about 150 Filipinos are in Gaza.The Philippine government has ordered the mandatory evacuation of all Filipinos in the Gaza Strip — where at least 92 out of the 131 Filipinos in Gaza have requested repatriation — but officials are struggling to find a viable exit point as Gaza is under blockade.
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