Why were there so many Thai farmers among hostage by Hamas? , world News
Bangkok: Israel says that he has retrieved the body of a 35 -year -old Thai hostage, which was abducted in Gaza during October 7, 2023, which provoked the war. Natapong Pinta was out of 31 This taken by Hamas Militant Group. Thailand’s Foreign Ministry confirmed in a statement on Saturday that the last Thai hostage Pinta in Gaza was confirmed. It said that the bodies of two other people have not yet been recovered. The ministry has said that 46 This have been killed during the war. Thais was the largest group of foreigners held by Hamas. He was one of the thousands of Thai workers in Israel. There is a look here what they were doing.
Why are there so many theas in Israel?
Israel once trusted Palestinian workers a lot, but it began to bring a large number of migrant workers after the 1987–93 Palestinian rebellion, known as First Intifada. Most came from Thailand, and this today remains the largest group of foreign agricultural laborers in Israel, earning much more than being at home. Thailand and Israel implemented a bilateral agreement a decade ago to reduce the way for workers in the agriculture sector. Israel has criticized the circumstances under which Thai farm laborers work. In 2015, a Human Rights Watch report stated that he was often placed in temporary and insufficient housing and “paid below the legal minimum wage, forced to work longer than the legal maximum, which was subject to unprotected work status and denied their rights to change employers.” A watchdog group recently found that most were still paid under legal minimum wages.
How many Thai citizens work in Israel?
Before Hamas’s attack, Israel had about 30,000 Thai workers working mainly on farms. In view of the attack, some 7,000 returned home, mainly on government withdrawal flights, but higher wages compared to those available at home have continued to attract new arrival. The Thai Ambassador to Israel, Panabh Chandramya recently said that now there are more than 38,000 Thai workers in the country. What happened after something left? Facing the lack of labor in view of the migration, the Ministry of Agriculture of Israel announced incentive to try to attract foreign workers back into the vacant areas. Among other things, it offered to expand the work visa and pay a bonus of about 500 US dollars per month. The Ministry of Labor of Thailand allowed 3,966 Thai workers to work in Israel in 2024, who used to keep Israel in the top four sites for Theas, who works abroad last year. Thai migrant workers usually come from the poor regions of the country, especially the Northeast, and even before the bonus, jobs in Israel have paid several times what they could do at home.
