ZAMBOANGA CITY: The provincial government of Sulu and Tawi-Tawi and the Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) have strongly criticized Philippine Ambassador to the United Kingdom Teodoro Locsin Jr., also the Philippines' special envoy to China for special concerns, for his sarcastic tirades on his post on X, formerly Twitter, regarding the Israel-Hamas war.

The Department of Foreign Affairs on Monday also disassociated itself from Locsin's statement made on October 21, saying, 'Palestinian children should be killed; they might grow to become as gullible as innocent Palestinians letting Hamas launch rockets at Israel; not that they could stop them, but that's no excuse.'