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THE Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) on Saturday renewed its call for Filipinos to leave Lebanon before the situation there further escalates amid the conflict between Hezbollah and Israeli forces in the region.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n DMW OIC-Undersecretary for Foreign Employment and Welfare Services Felicitas Bay said the government is continuing its voluntary repatriation.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cDiri-diretso po iyong voluntary repatriation. Again this is a call for all Filipinos not only OFWs but for Filipinos in Lebanon to heed the call of the government for voluntary repatriation,\u201d Bay said in a news forum in Quezon City.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cKaya po hinihikayat natin huwag na po nating hintayin na mas lalong lumala iyong situation,\u201d she said.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n There are over 11,000 Filipinos with their dependents in Lebanon, she said.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Registration is ongoing for those who wish to return home, she said. The list already has about 1,100 individuals who wanted to be repatriated, according to Bay. However, some of them changed their mind, she said.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cMayroon po kaming mga information at sila po ay nagsulat or tumawag nagparehistro subalit mamaya ay nagsabing binabawi ko na po iyong registration po or I am not pursuing with what I have signified before,\u201d she added.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n In October last year, the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) raised the alert to level 3 in Lebanon. Under the said alert level, the processing of Balik-Manggagawa application and the return of contract workers to Lebanon are suspended.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The DFA said the Philippine government is considering to place Lebanon under alert level 4 if the situation worsens.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" THE Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) on Saturday renewed its call for Filipinos to leave Lebanon before the situation there further escalates amid the conflict<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8872,"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\/8871"}],"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=8871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8873,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8871\/revisions\/8873"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/journaldailynewsonline.com.ph\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}