The deadly uprising by Palestinian Hamas militants against Israel a continent away has hit home here as Thai nationals from this Buddhist-majority country made up an unexpectedly large percentage of the foreign nationals killed or captured in the fighting so far.
Officials here say at least 20 Thai citizens working in Israel were among the dead after a rampage of indiscriminate slaughter and missile attacks by Palestinian fighters over the weekend. While 25 nations around the world have announced their citizens have been killed or captured in the fighting, Thailand’s death total is second only to the United States.
“We have a lot of debts, and working abroad pays better than in Thailand,” said a worried Kanyarat Suriyasri, after hearing her husband Owat Suriyasri, 40, was seized as a hostage. The family lives in Si Saket province in eastern Thailand. More than 5,000 Thai workers in Israel want to evacuate to Thailand, but an additional 25,000 who came primarily seeking jobs as laborers hope to remain there, the Thai Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday. Some of the Thai laborers did not want to leave Israel because they needed to reimburse hundreds of dollars owed to Thai middlemen who helped them get work on farms and construction crews in the desert.
“I would hug him and say: ‘I’ve missed you, I won’t let you anywhere far away again,’” she told reporters.“Since most Israeli security and emergency personnel have been dispatched to battle areas, there are not many able to assist in retrieving dead bodies,” the Bangkok Post
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