00:00The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration reports that at least 1,000 Middle East-bound
00:05Filipino workers have been stranded at airports in the Philippines and abroad.
00:08This due to flight cancellations linked to the regional crisis.
00:12Department of Migrant Workers Secretary Hans Leokakdak says he has directed authorities to
00:17assist all stranded Filipinos. He adds, the DMW has monitored no Filipino casualties from the
00:22recent airstrikes in Iran, noting that only about 80 Filipinos remain there.
00:26Meantime, President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. confirmed on Sunday night, March 1,
00:30the death of a Filipino worker in the conflict in Israel.
00:33She reportedly died assisting a patient to a bomb shelter.
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