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Three more Thai nationals have died in the conflict between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas, bringing the death toll to 24, Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin said Saturday.
“I have been informed that there are three more people who died, making it a total of 24,” Srettha told reporters.
Two additional Thai nationals have been wounded, the Thai foreign ministry said, bringing the total to 16.
About 30,000 Thais are working in Israel, mostly in the agriculture sector, according to the kingdom’s labour ministry.
Palestinians in Gaza face choice: stay under strikes, or flee under strikes?
Thousands of Palestinians have fled to southern Gaza seeking refuge after Israel warned them to evacuate before an expected ground offensive against Hamas in retaliation for the deadliest attack in Israel’s history.
Last Saturday, hundreds of Hamas gunmen stormed across the border from Gaza into Israel and killed more than 1,300 people, most of them civilians.
At least 1,900 Gazans – most of them civilians and including more than 600 children – have been killed in missile strikes on the densely populated enclave, the health ministry said.
Hamas took about 150 Israeli, foreign and dual national hostages back to Gaza in the initial attack, Israel has said.
I just want my husband back. I just want to hug him
Kanyarat Suriyasri, wife of a Thai hostage being held in Israel
Fears are held over the fate of 16 Thai hostages.
Kanyarat Suriyasri, the wife of a hostage, urged the Thai government to do everything to bring her husband home safely.
“I just want my husband back. I just want to hug him,” she said, in Si Sa Ket province in the country’s northeast.

Diplomats are working to bring home 7,000 Thai workers and the kingdom’s national and low cost airlines have signed up to help.
There were emotional scenes at a Bangkok airport on Thursday as the first group of evacuees, many of them wounded, were reunited with their families.
Nearly 100 Thais have returned from Israel with a third repatriation flight carrying 100 more due to land in Thailand on Sunday.


On Friday, the Philippines foreign ministry said that a 49-year-old woman was killed at the music festival. Previously authorities said a 33-year-old woman and a 42-year-old man had been killed at a kibbutz. Three nationals remained missing.
Ten Nepali citizens were killed in Kibbutz Alumim, the Himalayan republic’s embassy in Tel Aviv said. The kibbutz was hosting 17 students at the time of the attack.
Three Israeli-Austrians were killed in the attacks, authorities said. Two others remain missing. China’s foreign ministry said on Thursday that three Chinese nationals had been killed and two were missing.
Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Manet said one Cambodian student had been killed.
Sri Lanka’s ambassador to Israel said on Tuesday that two nationals, a 48-year-old man and a 49-year-old woman, were missing.
Foreign Minister Penny Wong said on Wednesday an Australian woman had been killed in the attacks.

Meanwhile, Australia has cancelled two planned flights to repatriate citizens from Israel and the Palestinian territories due to the “highly challenging” situation, the foreign affairs department said on Saturday.
Repatriation flights scheduled for Saturday and Sunday will not depart as planned amid a “highly challenging and rapidly changing” situation, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) said in a statement on social media.
Australia continues to work with citizens in the area to help them return home and will communicate about future flights, DFAT added.
The first in the planned series of repatriation flights left on Friday local time, with over 200 Australians and their families arriving safely in London, according to SBS News.


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Thai death toll in Israel-Gaza conflict hits 24 as Australia cancels repatriation flights

Noopar Pansa-ard prays for her son, Somkuan Pansa-ard, a Thai labourer who was killed in Israel in the ongoing conflict. Photo: Reuters

Kanyarat Suriyasri, the wife of Thai worker Owat Suriyasri who is being held hostage by Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza. Photo: AFP

Australians queue at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, but flights over the weekend have been cancelled. Photo: AFP

To Israel and the West, Hamas are terrorists. But for Malaysia?

People stand outside a mosque in the Gaza Strip, identified as the Muhammad al-Amin mosque built with Malaysian donations, that was destroyed by an Israeli air strike on Sunday. Photo: AP

A protester holds a Palestinian flag outside the US embassy in Kuala Lumpur during a 2017 rally against Washington’s decision to recognise Jerusalem as capital of Israel. Photo: EPA-EFE

Malaysia’s then-Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed (left) welcomes senior Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh to Putrajaya in 2020. Photo: Handout/Prime Minister’s Office of Malaysia

Palestinians inspect the ruins of a mosque in Gaza City that was destroyed by an Israeli air strike on Monday. Photo: AP

Israel-Hamas war divides Southeast Asia as trade, religion determine responses

Smoke rises from Gaza on Tuesday following Israeli air strikes on the Palestinian exclave. Photo: Reuters

Indonesian protesters shout slogans outside the US embassy in Jakarta during a rally on Tuesday to demand an end to the Israel-Hamas conflict. Photo: AP

Australia reverses recognition of West Jerusalem as Israel’s capital

Jerusalem is claimed by both Israelis and Palestinians. File photo: AP

Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong. Photo: AAP/dpa

Palestinian women protest against US President Donald Trump’s decision to recognise West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, in Gaza City. File photo: AFP

Countries rush to evacuate citizens as Israel-Hamas war rages

Argentine citizens boarding an Argentine Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel on Thursday. Photo: Argentina’s Foreign Ministry via AFP

Relatives and friends embrace each other after the landing of an evacuation flight from Tel Aviv, Israel, at Frankfurt Airport in Germany on Thursday. Photo: dpa

Argentine citizens board an Argentine Air Force C-130 Hercules aircraft at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Thursday, bound for Mario de Bernardi Air Base near Rome, Italy. Photo: Argentina’s Foreign Ministry via AFP

Israel-Gaza war: slain Filipino nurse praised for staying with elderly patient in ‘face of evil’ Hamas gunmen attack

Angelyn Aguirre, a nurse from the Philippines, is being remembered for her bravery for choosing to stay with her elderly patient when Hamas gunmen attacked a bomb shelter in Israel. Photo: Weibo

Slain Filipino nurse Angelyn Aguirre is being remembered for her bravery during an attack by Hamas gunmen at a bomb shelter in Israel. Photo: X/FleurHassanN 

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Three more Thai nationals are among the foreigners who have been killed in the deadliest attack in Israel’s history
Repatriation flights scheduled for Saturday and Sunday will not depart as planned, Australian government said


Three more Thai nationals are among the foreigners who have been killed in the deadliest attack in Israel’s history.
