SEN. Maria Josefa Imelda "Imee" Marcos is worried that some Filipino seafarers would end up as "collateral damage" in the Israeli-Hamas war as Yemeni rebels sympathetic to Hamas militants seized an Israeli-owned cargo ship with Filipino workers onboard.

The senator on Monday pressed the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) and Department of Migrant Workers to negotiate the release of the Filipino seafarers hostaged by Houthi rebels in Yemen as the Israeli-Hamas conflict expands beyond the Gaza Strip.

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