Filipinos return home from the Middle East

A total of 341 Filipino workers stranded and facing difficulties due to escalating tensions in the Middle East will return to the Philippines on a special chartered flight organized by the Philippine Overseas Workers' Welfare Agency (POLO) on Saturday, the agency announced.
The returning workers are from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Bahrain, POWA said.
The chartered flight is scheduled to depart from Riyadh to Manila on Saturday, according to the Philippine Star newspaper.
POWA teams, along with the Philippine embassies in Riyadh and Manama, are assisting Filipino workers arriving from Bahrain to safely cross the land border and reach Riyadh, where they will board the chartered flight home.
Meanwhile, several Filipino workers from Kuwait are receiving government support in processing travel permits and facilitating their passage across the land border to reach the assembly area in Riyadh.
It is worth noting that large numbers of Filipinos work in the Gulf states, which are targeted by Iranian missile and drone attacks as part of Tehran's response to US and Israeli attacks on the Islamic Republic of Iran. 

The government will provide chartered flights to overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in conflict-hit Middle East so they can return to the Philippines safely, President Marcos has said recently.

More than 400 Filipinos have returned to the Philippines since the war in the Middle East started.

On March 10, 32 repatriates from the Middle East arrived in Manila onboard an Oman Air flight.

Of the 32 repatriates, 24 were OFWs (21 from Dubai and three from Oman), while eight were family dependents.

The Philippine Consulate General and the Singapore Consulate General in Jeddah recently helped 24 OFWs secure seats in the Singapore-organized repatriation flight.