00:00 Another caregiver was confirmed to be in the house
00:03 when the Hamas group attacked Israel.
00:06 In the middle of the Israeli offensive in Gaza,
00:08 almost 100 Filipinos in Gaza are asking for help to return to the Philippines.
00:13 My report is from Ivan Mayrina.
00:15 It's been a week since the bloodshed between Israel and the Hamas group.
00:26 One of the first incidents of violence
00:28 was during the Amasayasanam music festival in southern Israel.
00:31 The Hamas group returned home from a massacre on Saturday.
00:35 According to the authorities, 260 people were killed in the attack.
00:40 In the worst case scenario, the DFA confirmed that
00:42 Loreta Alacre, a caregiver of Tubong Cadiz City, Negros Occidental, was there.
00:48 She is the third Filipino to return home from the attack by the Hamas.
00:51 Loreta's husband needed another one to be tested for DNA.
00:55 Unfortunately, a lot of the bodies of those who were killed were mutilated or burned.
01:07 So that's why it's taking time to determine.
01:12 The DFA is now asking Loreta's two siblings in Kuwait
01:16 to return home as soon as possible.
01:19 I'm just concerned that one of my siblings is in Kuwait.
01:26 The DFA also talked to her relatives.
01:29 So far, three Filipinos are still looking for her.
01:32 Geline Orpacheco, a caregiver,
01:35 and his wife Clarice are all in tears because of the deep concern.
01:40 It's been a long time since she left.
01:44 It's hard.
01:48 We are waiting for my children.
01:51 We are also hoping that she will return home safely.
01:57 She saw in a viral video a man who looks like her husband
02:01 who was stabbed by the Hamas.
02:03 But the Philippine Embassy in Israel has not confirmed yet
02:06 if the Hamas is a Filipino.
02:08 Israel has evacuated the entire population of Gaza
02:12 to the south of the city in the next 24 hours.
02:15 131 Filipinos are in Gaza.
02:18 32 of them are asking to return home.
02:22 But it hasn't happened yet
02:24 because of the relentless attack and the Israeli Defense Force.
02:27 We are getting ready.
02:29 Our embassy in Cairo is sending a team to the border.
02:33 According to the Ambassador of Palestine in the Philippines,
02:35 a ceasefire must be reached on the border of Gaza and Egypt
02:38 or what is called the Rafa Passage.
02:40 Israel should open a safe corridor
02:45 and to allow aid to come together
02:50 like food and also to have a truce.
02:56 The Department of National Defense is also preparing
02:58 to carry out a repatriation
03:00 if ordered by President Marcos.
03:02 Ivan Mejrina reporting for GMA Integrated News.
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