The Filipino peacekeepers in the Golan Heights did the right thing in refusing to surrender their firearms despite orders from their commander, Vice President Jejomar C. Binay said on Tuesday.​

​“I think the situation warranted that they not surrender their only means to defend themselves. A spoken guarantee of safe passage is simply not enough assurance, given that it was their own lives at stake,” Binay said.

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