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From 9,025 kilometers away to the Gaza Strip, where 131 Filipinos have been accounted for by the Philippine government, we watch developments with bated breath, hoping our countrymen would be able to cross soon enough the Rafah crossing.
President Marcos talked to the family of the third Filipino casualty in the cross-border attacks on Gaza strip which sparked a devastating war between Israel and Hamas.
Millions of civilians – Palestinians and foreigners alike, including some 131 Filipinos – remained trapped in Gaza, desperately waiting for humanitarian corridors to open in the heavily bombarded enclave.
Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip since Hamas’s attack on southern Israeli civilians eight days ago have killed at least 2,329 people, the Hamas-controlled health ministry said Sunday.
Scores of foreigners were killed, wounded or taken hostage in Hamas’s attack on Israel last week, which left more than 1,300 dead in Israel.
The World Health Organization said Saturday that forcing thousands of hospital patients to evacuate to already overflowing hospitals in the southern Gaza Strip could be “tantamount to a death sentence”.