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Filipina Killed in Israel Airstrike, Marcos Says - BusinessWorld Online
Mary Anne Velazquez Rivera, a caregiver from Pangasinan, was killed by shrapnel while assisting her ward to a bomb shelter, becoming the first Filipino casualty amid escalating Middle East conflict.
- On Sunday night, March 1, President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. confirmed the first reported Filipino casualty in the Middle East conflict, identifying Mary Anne Velazquez Rivera, a caregiver from Pangasinan working in Israel.
- On Saturday, Feb. 28, the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran, prompting Iran to retaliate with missiles and drones toward Israel and U.S. military facilities.
- While helping her ward reach a bomb shelter, Rivera was caught in the attack and died from shrapnel wounds, her husband, an overseas Filipino worker in Israel, identified her.
- The Philippine government said it will provide assistance to the family, Philippine embassies and labor attachés remain on heightened alert, and since Saturday at least 23 international flights to the Middle East were canceled with three diverted.
- With strikes hitting U.S. military facilities in Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar, the Armed Forces of the Philippines stands ready to augment repatriation for about 4,000 to 6,000 Filipinos working in U.S. bases in the Middle East.
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Among the many communities of expatriates there are already several victims. The first death in the Jewish State for an Iranian missile was that of a Filipino carer. The conflict also affects the seas, with a seaman dead on an oil tanker off the coast of Oman. A Pakistani, a Nepali and a Bangladeshi citizen killed the three people in the United Arab Emirates.
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Filipina killed in Israel airstrike, Marcos says - BusinessWorld Online
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Filipino national identified as woman killed by Iranian missile in Tel Aviv
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Pinay caregiver in Israel killed in airstrike
A Filipina caregiver was killed in an airstrike in Israel, President Marcos said yesterday, as the world braces for the effects – including a possible prolonged conflict – of the attacks launched by American and Israeli forces against Iran.
Filipina caregiver killed in Israel, Palace confirms
MANILA – President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. confirmed the first reported Filipino casualty in the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. In a video message on Sunday night, March 1, President Marcos said that the victim was identified as Mary Anne Velazquez Rivera, a caregiver from Pangasinan who worked in Israel. According to the report the Philippine Government received, Rivera was helping her ward reach a bomb shelter when they were caught in th…
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