The Filipino foreign minister Albert del Rosario said that he wants to pull out its UN peacekeepers from the Israeli occupied Golan Heights, after four members of its forces were kidnapped by Syrian rebels.
"The people that abducted our peacekeepers were actually under siege and they are using our people to get themselves out of the situation they find themselves in. That thing is not for us,"
"We have sent a recommendation to the president and as soon as he says go, we will undertake to do that as soon as possible,'' del Rosario said.
A UN spokesperson said that efforts to secure their release were underway and the remaining peacekeepers had been moved from the observation post targeted by rebels from the Yarmouk Martyrs Brigade on Tuesday.