Sirens warning of Iranian missiles blare out so frequently that Joycee Pelayo, a Filipino living near to Tel Aviv, doesnโt leave the house any more. Each time an alert sounds, she rushes to help the older man she cares for, supporting him into a wheelchair, then down the steps into a nearby shelter.
โLast night, there were three alerts. We received it at about 2am, in the middle of the night, and then 3am, and then 4am,โ says Pelayo.
She is among 2.4 million Filipinos living across the Middle East, who moved in pursuit of higher wages and a chance to give a better life to families back home, but now find themselves living with a daily barrage of drone and missile strikes.
The war that has erupted between the US, Israel and Iran, engulfing the
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