Since 1948, Dozens of Foreign Workers, Tourists, Pilgrims, and Volunteers Have Been Killed After Getting Caught Up in a Conflict Unrelated to Them. Officially, They Are Treated Like Any Other Casualties, but to Israeli Society They Simply Vanish
Ambassador visits Thai workers near border with Gaza
published : 28 May 2021 at 04:00 Thai ambassador to Israel Pannabha Chandraramya, together with senior embassy officials, visit Attrachai Thamkaeo, a Thai worker, who was injured in a missile strike at Soroka Medical Center in Beersheva. Foreign Affairs Ministry photo
The Thai ambassador to Israel has visited Thai workers in Israel to give them moral support after two of their compatriots were killed and eight others injured in a Palestinian rocket attack by the Hamas militant group on May 18.
Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Tanee Sangrat said yesterday the ambassador, Pannabha Chandraramya, along with other senior embassy officials went to Soroka Medical Center in Beersheva on May 26 to visit Attrachai Thamkaeo, a Thai worker wounded in the strike near the Gaza border.
The bodies of two Thai workers killed in a Palestinian rocket strike in Israel are being flown home on a flight scheduled to land at Suvarnabhumi airport at 12.30pm on Wednesday, according to Foreign Ministry spokesman Tanee Sangrat.
Bodies of killed Thai workers return after ceremony
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published : 27 May 2021 at 04:00
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The bodies of two Thai workers killed in a Palestinian rocket strike in Israel arrived at Suvarnabhumi International Airport yesterday afternoon.
The two workers Weerawat Karunborirak, from Phetchabun, and Sikharin Sangamram, from Buri Ram were killed on May 18 when rockets fired by Hamas militants from the Gaza Strip landed at Moshav Ohad, an agricultural settlement, in the Eshkol region of southern Israel. Eight other Thai workers were injured.
Arrangements were made by the Royal Thai Embassy in Tel Aviv for the return of the bodies.
A repatriation ceremony was held in front of the El Al cargo office at Ben Gurion International Airport before leaving Israel on Tuesday.
Families of Thais united in grief
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Hamas strike on Israeli farm a huge blow
published : 20 May 2021 at 04:00
6 Ruenrat Saelee sits with a photo of her husband, Weerawat Karunborirak, at their house. (Photo: Soonthorn Kongwarakhom)
When Weerawat Karunborirak left to work in Israel in 2018, he had only one thing on his mind: to earn enough money to build a house for his family.
The house in Khao Kho district has been completed with the money he sent his wife, but the 43-year-old worker will never live in it.
Weerawat was one of the two Thai workers killed in a Palestinian rocket attack on an Israeli farm from Gaza on Tuesday.