I recently met some of them when I went to a solidarity concert in front of CSSP. They're 68 individuals and I've since became friends with some in my age group. We converse through google translate cause I can't speak arabic and they can't speak english but also through their phone gallery, they showed me their normal life in Gaza before. Then they showed videos of Israel raining bombs on their homes and schools to destroy that :((

It pains me that they're only so young, the largest age group are babies and toddlers. One young man (20yo) is the same age as me, studying engineering until his university was destroyed. It's good that the Philippines opened its borders and the UPD admin is helping, but they've yet to get a comprehensive support from the PH government as detailed in International Refugee Law because they're treated as repatriated OFWs intstead of refugees. And they only have until the 21st to stay in UP because of the holiday break hanggang January 3...

Anyway, I'm hoping some UP students are interested in helping them? My volunteer organization has an orientation this monday sa CS on how iskos can help.. hoping this reaches a wide audience, and just DM me if you're interested!