‘No work back home’: Lebanon’s foreign domestic workers fear Israel war

Migrant domestic workers carry an Ethiopian flag during a march demanding labour rights in Beirut, Lebanon, on May 3, 2015 [File: Bilal Hussein/AP Photo]

Beirut, Lebanon — Meriam Prado remembers the war between Hezbollah and Israel in 2006. When the family in Lebanon that employed her at the time fled to Syria and then Saudi Arabia, they encouraged her to return to the Philippines, the country of her birth.

But Meriam decided to stay and volunteered at the Philippines Embassy and her church in Beirut.