Manila: Challenges facing Filipino-Palestinian families after fleeing Gaza

Filipino-Palestinians who fled Gaza say they are struggling to settle in the Philippines.
Nearly 60 of them returned after Israel started its war on Gaza - some after decades of living in the besieged territory.
They have been sheltering at a university in Manila But they are now being told to move.
Al Jazeera’s Barnaby Lo reports from Manila.
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[@SourceAwareness]

Blessings to everyone in the Philippines! 🧡

[@Jjrr462]

You concentrate on Gaza. People are dying there. Don't waste your time on Philippines.

[@SourceAwareness]

@@Jjrr462 No. I do what I want. Grow up, child...

[@Jjrr462]

​@@SourceAwarenessokay you are grown up . What you doing here wasting your time. Go and fight there. Don't be coward like 57.

[@Hkchinese888]

@@Jjrr462 not everyone in the world cares about gaza, wake up

[@nicbentulan]

​@@Hkchinese888 Gazan 🇵🇸 to IDF 🇮🇱: 'We must take down the heads of Hamas. Don't leave this place! People are stupid and do not understand anything. What are we to do with all of this? This is all because of Sinwar and Haniyeh. Haniyeh eats at restaurants in Turkey. And Sinwar eats hidden underground. They eat meat while we eat bullets.' Unpopular view: Israel 🇮🇱 is a hero and is freeing Palestine 🇵🇸 from Hamas by doing the exact opposite of the g word everyone accused Israel of - Israel is actually the saviour of the Palestinians. Game of Thrones analogy: Daenerys 'Mhysa' (up to S7 only lol) is Israel, and Yunkai is Palestine. See Matthew 5:10-11,44 & 18:6. Hamas steals aid from Palestinians 🇵🇸 and kills Jews 🇮🇱 , so supporting Israel 🇵🇸 = supporting Palestine 🇮🇱. Hamas steals aid from Palestinians 🇵🇸 and kills Jews 🇮🇱 , so supporting Israel 🇵🇸 = supporting Palestine 🇮🇱. Hamas gets richer for each Palestinian 🇵🇸 child killed, so of course Israel'd 🇮🇱 want to reduce casualties! QUESTION: I don't really care if you agree or disagree. Where else can I find someone else who's actually said this view before? - Many pro-Israel extremely agree with me, but they haven't seen anyone before me. I've never seen any pro-Israel argue that Israel is doing the exact OPPOSITE of genocide. So, well, I could be wrong, even in their POV. - Many pro-Palestine find such ridiculous, which I guess is really just a polar opposite position of essentially the same answer as the pro-Israel side which is 'I haven't seen any.' So I'm either extremely insightful or articulate (pro-Israel) or I'm extremely ridiculous (pro-Palestine). Again either way extreme which in this case means NEW. Unbelievable. --- Elaboration: (Begin) Part1 IDF soldiers have DIED saving Palestinians. Israel won the 3rd arab war in 6 days, yet Hamas hasn't been beaten after months. I read if Israel didn't care about civilian casualties, even if they didn't nuke, then this war would've been over in weeks with hundreds of thousands in casualties. Part2 Most Palestinians HATE Hamas. (There are videos!) Hamas steals aid from them! In the 1st Arab war, the Arabs were supposed to be the saviour of the (Arab) Palestinians from the evil UN partition plan. Now Israel is saving the Palestinians from the evil UN that votes for a ceasefire. Looks like Israel has done a better job of saving Palestinians in the last few months than the Arabs did in the last 75 years. Quote from Israeli declaration of independence: ‘WE APPEAL - in the very midst of the onslaught launched against us now for months - to the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to preserve peace and participate in the upbuilding of the State on the basis of full and equal citizenship and due representation in all its provisional and permanent institutions.’ Israel saves the Palestinians - politically from a dictatorial regime that steals from them and - morally by dropping leaflets & providing aid & corridors which the ww2 allies never did in Dresden. Part3 Despite all the baseless accusations, the deaths incurred that they see on a daily basis and the ceasefire calls, Israel still perseveres in the prosecution of this war to defend not just Jews but Arabs (Hamas hates Arab Israelis more than Jewish anti-Zionists?) and still provides aid, instead of being spiteful like 'Oh you think we're evil after all the aid we've provided? Ok let's see how you like it when we turn off the aid.' Note: - Israel is condemned despite giving aid to the FOREIGN Palestinians. - No one cares when Hamas steals aid from its OWN people! Part4 Hamas violates the principle of honour - ‘They must refrain from taking advantage of the adversary's adherence to the law by falsely claiming the law's protection’. Hamas commits war crimes such as employing human shields, wearing civilian clothing & indoctrinating children (Matthew 18:6) and then commits another war crime of dishonourable lawfare! Part5 Israel goes BEYOND honour. I wonder if this magnanimity goes beyond Judaism. I don't recall anything as explicit as this in the old testament. Like Jesus takes a step further to say 'love your enemies.' Israel has no obligation to save the Palestinians who voted Hamas into power. Yet Israel saves despite being reviled - This is exactly what Jesus did. Jews are more Christian than Christians! Like in the 10 commandments movie, Moses doesn't know God, but God knows Moses. Here, Jews don't know Jesus, but Jesus knows Jews. I mean look what Pope Francis has said and even HASN'T said about this situation. Disappointing. You'd think Pope Francis, who's read the Brit Had Asha aka New Testament a million times while the Jews haven't, would bring this up but nada. Tsk tsk. In this regard, I'd say Jews don't need Jesus. Israel is like Jesus already. Part6 My heart goes out to the Jews. It's this war that makes me understand what Pope John Paul II said how the Jews are our elder brothers / siblings / sisters. You, of the blood line of Jesus, reclaimed the holy land for us, made it prosperous and democratic. And despite all the revilement you receive you still love your enemies by dropping leaflets. Our elder siblings are protecting democracy / west from Islamism. 'The west is next.' or 'After Saturday comes Sunday.' God bless you my Jewish siblings - excuse me - elder siblings. Part7 I think this view might be unpopular because unfortunately Israel doesn't have that many vocal defenders who are gentile non-Israeli. so Israel is just humbly saying as a matter of fact that they're not committing war crimes. They can't say further because if an Israeli or a Jew says so then it sounds arrogant (maybe like Numbers 12:3 if Numbers was written by Moses) - Israel is actually a SAVIOUR/HERO of the Palestinians - the exact OPPOSITE of a war criminal. Again, if anyone's already seen a view like this then please tell me where I can read about it. (End) Let Israel 🇮🇱 free Palestine 🇵🇸. More info: - pspcYv - yirg14TiLt8 - ARNSi0cPu60

[@MdAminulIslam-un3pi]

Everyone should stand with Innocent Palestinians.

[@islamtawheedsunnahmanhaj-u8499]

SHAME ON WESTERN WORLD GOVT FOR BEING COMPLICIT IN THIS ONGOING HUMAN CARNAGE !!!

[@fkoff7649]

SHAME ON MUSLIM COUNTRIES FOR NOT ACCEPTING THE REFUGEES. SHAME ON TERRORSIT SUPPORTING HAMAS.

[@fkoff7649]

SHAME ON ISLAMISTS FOR CAUSING ALL THIS TROUBLE AND TERRORISM.

[@SourceAwareness]

💙The whole world is seeing the TRUTH about the illegal occupation. There is no turning back. The world is now knowing what Palestinians have been going through for 75+ years. Blessings, Everyone..

[@davidmhale521]

How’s that working out for the people of Gaza ? How’s it going for them having Hamas fight for them ?

[@user-uh8ro8iv2z]

💙The whole world is seeing the TRUTH about the palestinian islamic terrorists!There is no turning back. The world is now knowing what innocent israelis have been going through for 75+ years. Blessings, and love from a smart athiest Iranian!

[@globalado2593]

There are a lot of Palestinians that were not born within Israel's border. Do they get grandfathered into the history?

[@ralflycombate5263]

75yr is past sir.we pilipino no hatred with Japan and america killing our ancestors but still no hatred in our heart That's why we teach the new generation to love.. that's the christian teaching god said forgive them they don't know what they doing.. and god sacrifice himself for there sin.. that's our heroes did sacrifice for generation and family to leave peacefully.. Palestinian built tunnel buy gun.. built more hospital school and plant more food teach the children to do that not a gunfighter..

[@wreyesbayarea]

Don't expect the Philippine government to help refugees. The government barely does anything to help it's own people that's why there are so many OFWs.

[@mpalmer7800]

Leave to where? What a shame!!! To think government should be happy to have their own people!!! It’s a shame

[@deathbyathousandcats]

The Ph government, while they should give better service to all citizens at all times, did not exactly do wrong to these newly arrived Filipinos. This isn't the first time they've helped Filipinos return from either getting abused in the middle east or being trapped in wars like during the Taliban time. Renting a simple place in the area is not that expensive, and you can ask for donations and approach social services/ govt offices. Their rights to work, study, have medical care is the same with the locals. I understand the families are worried about their relatives still in Gaza, and there are difficulties same as what other Filipinos experience, but I'm quite weirded out by this Al Jazeera way of reporting.

[@lisagardner903]

No other muslim countries will take the refugees so that tells me all I need to know.

[@ShahNawazKhan-ud4sv]

InshaAllah, your plight will see daylight , ameen

[@deathbyathousandcats]

Can't say much about its politicians, but the Philippines is very accomodating. Whenever domestic workers are beaten up in the middle east a lot of Filipinos help the victim when they get home. I understand that after having lived in Gaza they might not have a house in the Philippines, but do they not have relatives? Naturalizing Palestinian spouses - any foreign spouse- takes a while, that's natural. Why are they called refugees when they are in their own country? Their rights to work and study are not taken away. There's BARMM (if they're from the area), there's DSWD, they can approach offices. And of course there are already so many homeless people there, it's not easy to just get housing from the government. For basic medical needs, there are public hospitals.

[@redfullmoon]

She might no longer have Filipino citizenship. So how can she qualify for local benefits when she is no longer a citizen of the country she left decades ago.

[@abbyghail1342]

Can I pls have any contact info of her? I want to help her..

[@abubetts1846]

Free Palestine 🇵🇸 from 🇺🇸

[@HolyInspiredOrthodoxChristian]

Sad, As a white Orthodox Christian, I support the resistance to occupation. Unfortunately, my Arab and African family cannot speak about this even if they are Australian born to one Australian born parent. As my niece's and nephews and inlaws obviously appear Arab and African they would be labelled as supporting terrorism. All white Christians need to stand up for their families in the Muslim world and all indigenous people on this globe. We have migrated to their lands to seek refuge and must be thankful, kind and considerate of all life without prejudice. I have a huge Arab Muslim family all integrated with Ukrainian Orthodox Christians. God blessed me with such beautiful family with progeny from all over the world. My African Ethiopian family sought refuge in Kenya before they migrated to Australia. I am a proud Aunty to 8 beautiful mixed race children that all have the skin colour of their dad. They are the most beautiful children I could ever have prayed for to be part of my life. I have always prayed for suppressed world. My Ancestors are Christian Orthodox Holomodor (not Holocaust) survivors.

[@shortcomediesafricapaul8401]

😂 You are Fak3 we know. No Christian supports T3rrorism! The best religion, free of violence

[@user-uh8ro8iv2z]

you are not white and not a christian You are an islamic terror supporter troll from iran 😂

[@lisagardner903]

If you are a Christian then you know that Israel was given to the Jewish people which is evidenced in the Bible in Exodus. The Jewish people are not occupying Israel because it was given to them by God. Moses took the Jewish people to the "Promised Land" by God and nobody can change this.

[@murmursofgrandeur6686]

​@@lisagardner903if you were born in the latest or the century now, maybe you'd also know that killing children is a war crime and punishable. sorry but the bible doesn't create laws, PEOPLE do.

[@faraciel864]

Welcome sa Philippines

[@HolyInspiredOrthodoxChristian]

I find it hard to believe that Saudi Arabia cannot stop this. This is a horror that will come back to haunt and destroy them. Also, I just watched a video about Yemen Houthis apparently holding up and diverting trade ships. Is it just me or does anyone else see that this looks like digital cinematography with digital avatars.

[@arcie3716]

My God..

[@arleenabdulraheemfakhori1048]

How can i contact them directly to send help for them.Ty

[@gracecnejem6222]

Thank you

[@0__0123]

Maybe they can approach DOJ and Malacanang for refugee status, naturalization, housing, etc.

[@aliali-bk1ep]

Yamani 🤲🤲🤲🤲🤲👍💖💖

[@nezzianezzy4584]

Why they cant help them reach them

[@seeker_1111]

How can İ reach them? Does anyone know? Let's extend our help to them if you're in the Philippines

[@gracecnejem6222]

Thank you

[@aliali-bk1ep]

Ya Allah ho.akabar ya Allah rahama falasaten 🤲🤲🤲🤲🤲

[@abdullatif6557]

Where is UN and international community. Please Stop Apartheid Israel and Israeli genocide

[@user-cv6iz8kg5g]

the Philippines is known for opening doors to any one who would like to have a peaceful life with a decent way if living . it's history has shown for decades that the country has helped those who are in need . From the time of President Quezon's policy of help for Jewish refugees , to the "white Russians" , to the Iranian and the Vietnamese refugees.. there is no reason why the Palestinians should be excluded from this merciful act . let alone to it's own Filipino citizens

[@SourceAwareness]

"The biggest insult to the memory of the holocaust is not denying it but using it as an excuse to justify the genocide of the Palestinian people." - Norman Finkelstein

[@davidmhale521]

And if Israel didn’t fight back after October 7 th. Palestinians would have committed Genocide against Israelis. And will commit another October 7 th over an and over. So why can’t Israel do the same ?

[@shortcomediesafricapaul8401]

This Fak3 bot, you don't have a job? Are you part of H@mas

[@gracecnejem6222]

​@@davidmhale521do u really think it started oct7? There were no hamas b4 bit they're been killing thousand of palestinian already

[@davidmhale521]

@@gracecnejem6222 10/7 is what set this latest conflict off. Israel is just returning the favor for being attacked on 10/7 by Palestinians from Gaza. So all they’ve managed to do by attacking Israel. Is make life worse for their Palestinian brothers and sisters. You must be so proud of hamas. Seeing how you make excuses for them.

[@nicbentulan]

​@@gracecnejem6222 Yes. Gazan 🇵🇸 to IDF 🇮🇱: 'We must take down the heads of Hamas. Don't leave this place! People are stupid and do not understand anything. What are we to do with all of this? This is all because of Sinwar and Haniyeh. Haniyeh eats at restaurants in Turkey. And Sinwar eats hidden underground. They eat meat while we eat bullets.' Unpopular view: Israel 🇮🇱 is a hero and is freeing Palestine 🇵🇸 from Hamas by doing the exact opposite of the g word everyone accused Israel of - Israel is actually the saviour of the Palestinians. Game of Thrones analogy: Daenerys 'Mhysa' (up to S7 only lol) is Israel, and Yunkai is Palestine. See Matthew 5:10-11,44 & 18:6. Hamas steals aid from Palestinians 🇵🇸 and kills Jews 🇮🇱 , so supporting Israel 🇵🇸 = supporting Palestine 🇮🇱. Hamas steals aid from Palestinians 🇵🇸 and kills Jews 🇮🇱 , so supporting Israel 🇵🇸 = supporting Palestine 🇮🇱. Hamas gets richer for each Palestinian 🇵🇸 child killed, so of course Israel'd 🇮🇱 want to reduce casualties! QUESTION: I don't really care if you agree or disagree. Where else can I find someone else who's actually said this view before? - Many pro-Israel extremely agree with me, but they haven't seen anyone before me. I've never seen any pro-Israel argue that Israel is doing the exact OPPOSITE of genocide. So, well, I could be wrong, even in their POV. - Many pro-Palestine find such ridiculous, which I guess is really just a polar opposite position of essentially the same answer as the pro-Israel side which is 'I haven't seen any.' So I'm either extremely insightful or articulate (pro-Israel) or I'm extremely ridiculous (pro-Palestine). Again either way extreme which in this case means NEW. Unbelievable. --- Elaboration: (Begin) Part1 IDF soldiers have DIED saving Palestinians. Israel won the 3rd arab war in 6 days, yet Hamas hasn't been beaten after months. I read if Israel didn't care about civilian casualties, even if they didn't nuke, then this war would've been over in weeks with hundreds of thousands in casualties. Part2 Most Palestinians HATE Hamas. (There are videos!) Hamas steals aid from them! In the 1st Arab war, the Arabs were supposed to be the saviour of the (Arab) Palestinians from the evil UN partition plan. Now Israel is saving the Palestinians from the evil UN that votes for a ceasefire. Looks like Israel has done a better job of saving Palestinians in the last few months than the Arabs did in the last 75 years. Quote from Israeli declaration of independence: ‘WE APPEAL - in the very midst of the onslaught launched against us now for months - to the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to preserve peace and participate in the upbuilding of the State on the basis of full and equal citizenship and due representation in all its provisional and permanent institutions.’ Israel saves the Palestinians - politically from a dictatorial regime that steals from them and - morally by dropping leaflets & providing aid & corridors which the ww2 allies never did in Dresden. Part3 Despite all the baseless accusations, the deaths incurred that they see on a daily basis and the ceasefire calls, Israel still perseveres in the prosecution of this war to defend not just Jews but Arabs (Hamas hates Arab Israelis more than Jewish anti-Zionists?) and still provides aid, instead of being spiteful like 'Oh you think we're evil after all the aid we've provided? Ok let's see how you like it when we turn off the aid.' Note: - Israel is condemned despite giving aid to the FOREIGN Palestinians. - No one cares when Hamas steals aid from its OWN people! Part4 Hamas violates the principle of honour - ‘They must refrain from taking advantage of the adversary's adherence to the law by falsely claiming the law's protection’. Hamas commits war crimes such as employing human shields, wearing civilian clothing & indoctrinating children (Matthew 18:6) and then commits another war crime of dishonourable lawfare! Part5 Israel goes BEYOND honour. I wonder if this magnanimity goes beyond Judaism. I don't recall anything as explicit as this in the old testament. Like Jesus takes a step further to say 'love your enemies.' Israel has no obligation to save the Palestinians who voted Hamas into power. Yet Israel saves despite being reviled - This is exactly what Jesus did. Jews are more Christian than Christians! Like in the 10 commandments movie, Moses doesn't know God, but God knows Moses. Here, Jews don't know Jesus, but Jesus knows Jews. I mean look what Pope Francis has said and even HASN'T said about this situation. Disappointing. You'd think Pope Francis, who's read the Brit Had Asha aka New Testament a million times while the Jews haven't, would bring this up but nada. Tsk tsk. In this regard, I'd say Jews don't need Jesus. Israel is like Jesus already. Part6 My heart goes out to the Jews. It's this war that makes me understand what Pope John Paul II said how the Jews are our elder brothers / siblings / sisters. You, of the blood line of Jesus, reclaimed the holy land for us, made it prosperous and democratic. And despite all the revilement you receive you still love your enemies by dropping leaflets. Our elder siblings are protecting democracy / west from Islamism. 'The west is next.' or 'After Saturday comes Sunday.' God bless you my Jewish siblings - excuse me - elder siblings. Part7 I think this view might be unpopular because unfortunately Israel doesn't have that many vocal defenders who are gentile non-Israeli. so Israel is just humbly saying as a matter of fact that they're not committing war crimes. They can't say further because if an Israeli or a Jew says so then it sounds arrogant (maybe like Numbers 12:3 if Numbers was written by Moses) - Israel is actually a SAVIOUR/HERO of the Palestinians - the exact OPPOSITE of a war criminal. Again, if anyone's already seen a view like this then please tell me where I can read about it. (End) Let Israel 🇮🇱 free Palestine 🇵🇸. More info: - pspcYv - yirg14TiLt8 - ARNSi0cPu60

[@sunshinesun101]

These Palestinians are SO USED to handouts by UNRWA that they cannot survive on their own...

[@melancholybaby92]

I hate youtube. Free Palestine!🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

[@User-ik1vq]

American weapons business related everyone's are responsible for sorrow in happenings in world specifically in middle East.

[@fkoff7649]

BLAME HAMAS.

[@Mira-pm3ni]

Middle East people themselves are to be blamed . In 21st century they are still giving top priority to religion which will not save them from advance military technology . A Muslim said we don't believe in science . We don't question Quran as it's said by Allah . So it's true and perfect . We don't question the authority . With mindset like this how can they face the people who has advantage in science and technology . 57 Muslim countries are getting used by USA , Russia and China 🙂

[@guntherjauch7251]

Work?

[@nezzianezzy4584]

Where are the philipino muslem leaders

[@rizwansami7517]

Nice

[@rajavishnuvardhana6830]

Don't believe these people they act like innocent but they aren't!! Learn from the history.

[@randomaccount_9537]

Philippines ? why ?

[@hanamizuki2288]

who r u to say that??!!

[@iya7126]

bro is too into the zionist propaganda atp

[@murmursofgrandeur6686]

history? of what? that their children have been killed for 75 years? or maybe that israel is a state built on the xenophobia of the western world?

[@shanoorbasha4555]

Assalamualaikum hamas aapye dhoke mein na pade izraeel ye Jung haar chukahai izraeelper mizail dalthe rahe

[@jon.p.]

You can't be considered refugee in your own home. Mrs Alabdla has the same rights and duties like any other citizen. Refugee status are only given to foreigners. Refugees are not given the same privilege as our citizens, i.e. right to work and travel. There are restrictions attached to refugee status. And $1,300 is enough to start anew here.

[@Mira-pm3ni]

If they have given up citizenship of Philippines then they are refugees .

[@Jjrr462]

Al Jazeera Why don't you call Pakistani defence expert for next strategy on war. Like last time. This time try bring good experts as last time proved himself wrong

[@MitchellC-tx7mu]

😅

[@voicesrilanka1356]

haha you cannot trust the Pak army. They are more PRO US and India than Pro Pakistan or Pro Palestine

[@rajavishnuvardhana6830]

Hahaha🤣 Pakistan army lol🤣 they are in US busy in meeting with their masters.

[@user-uh8ro8iv2z]

Al Jazeera is a pro islamic terror channel who supports it's muslim brothers throughout the world no matter if they are terrorists who are killing innocent people.