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Thousands of Filipinos in the Middle East have been placed on alert after the United States and Israel launched coordinated airstrikes on Iran on February 28, triggering retaliatory missile and drone attacks across the region. Read more

Multiple Philippine institutions, including the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), the Palestinian Embassy in Manila, and the Philippine-Palestine Friendship Association (PFPA), have appealed for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza as famine conditions worsen for Palestinians. Read more

International bodies, including the United Nations (UN), the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), Reporters Without Borders (RSF) have condemned the killings of four journalists in a targeted Israeli airstrike on a press tent in Gaza City on August 12. Following Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s announcement of plans for major… Read more

An Israeli tank shell struck Gaza’s Holy Family Church on July 17, killing three people and injuring 10 others, including parish priest Fr. Gabriel Romanelli. Read more