Two Filipino doctors in Gaza have been allowed to cross into Egypt after being trapped in the besieged enclaved, the Department of Foreign Affairs said Thursday.
MANILA — Two Filipinos working with Doctors Without Borders were among the first group of people to leave the besieged Gaza Strip after crossing the Rafah border to Egypt, the international humanitarian organization and the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs said Thursday.
The DFA official said the Philippine government was in touch with the two Filipinos identified as Darwin Dela Cruz and Regidor Esguerra. The two will not be returning to the Philippines but will be deployed elsewhere. He said the government has also come in contact with 134 Filipinos trapped in Gaza, of which 115 want to be repatriated. Many of those who want to stay in Gaza have family there, he said.
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