Phl embassy pays tribute to victims of Hamas attack

On the first anniversary of the Oct.7 Hamas-led terror attack in Israel, the Philippine embassy in Tel Aviv and the Filipino community remembered and paid tribute to the 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals, including four Filipinos, who were brutally killed.

- By PIA LEE-BRAGO

Prayers were offered yesterday to remember Filipino caregivers Loreta Alacre, Angelyn Aguirre, Grace Cabrera and Paul Vincent Castelvi who were murdered in the attack, which also led to the abduction of more than 250 persons.

Alacre was killed while attending a music festival near the Gaza Strip.

Aguirre, Cabrera and Castelvi were murdered along with their patients and employers by Hamas terrorists in Beeri, a kibbutz next to Gaza mayor of Jerusalem, honored Aguirre, whom she described as someone who had been caring for elderly patient Nira in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, near Gaza Strip.