{"id":2044,"date":"2023-11-07T18:21:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T10:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/?p=2044"},"modified":"2023-12-19T18:22:21","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T10:22:21","slug":"more-ofws-return-home-from-hostilities-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/2023\/11\/07\/more-ofws-return-home-from-hostilities-in-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"MORE OFWs RETURN HOME FROM HOSTILITIES IN ISRAEL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>THE Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) has confirmed the return to the country of at least two more batches of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) from Israel this week.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Officer-in-Charge Hans Leo J. Cacdac said a fifth batch of OFWs arrived Monday from Israel via Etihad Airways flight EY 424 at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport\u2019s Terminal 3 (NAIA-3).<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>The batch of 22 OFWs and one infant was the latest group that arrived in the Philippines in the last three weeks from Israel.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Nineteen of them are caregivers while three are hotel workers.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Also, the remains of OFW Mary Grace Prodigo-Cabrera was brought back by her sister Mary June Prodigo who was part of the 22 returnees.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>Mary Grace was one of the four Filipino caregivers who died on the first day of the attacks launched by militant Palestinian group Hamas on October 7.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>A sixth batch composed of 42 OFWs returning to the Philippines from the Israel-Hamas conflict is slated to arrive Tuesday, November 7, 2023.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>The return to the country of these two batches this week will bring to a total of 184 the number of OFWs who have come back to the Philippines from Israel.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>The DMW expects more returning OFWs as hostilities between Israel\u2019s Defense Forces (IDF) and Hamas show no signs of toning down in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) has confirmed the return to the country of at least two more batches of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}