A total of 19 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) based in Lebanon have safely returned to the Philippines, the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) said on Sunday, Dec. 3.

In a statement posted on its Faceook page, DMW said the OFWs arrived at NAIA Terminal 3 in Pasay City via Qatar Airways flight QR934 at 7:46 a.m.

It said that the OFWs chose to return home due to "the escalating tension between Israel and the militant group Hezbollah, a Lebanon-based group sympathetic to Hamas."

"Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) Officer-in-Charge Hans Leo J. Cacdac personally assisted the OFWs and assured them of all the necessary assistance and other forms of support from the government," the DMW said.