{"id":4906,"date":"2025-02-09T08:11:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T08:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/thai-hostages-return-from-gaza\/"},"modified":"2025-02-09T08:11:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T08:11:13","slug":"thai-hostages-return-from-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/thai-hostages-return-from-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Thai Hostages Return From Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At Gate 10 of the arrivals hall of the Bangkok airport, Wichayada Saeyang stroked her son\u2019s hair, as if he were a small boy, not a grown man. A few feet away, Pongsak Thanna wrapped his arms around his father and did not let go. His tears dampened his father\u2019s shoulder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cTo see my son, it\u2019s indescribable,\u201d said Vilas Thanna, Mr. Pongsak\u2019s father. \u201cI cannot say it in words.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Sunday morning, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/30\/world\/middleeast\/thailand-israel-hostages-hamas.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare\" title=\"\">five hostages<\/a> returned to Thailand after 15 months of captivity in Gaza. The family reunions at the airport were a happy culmination to an ordeal that has roiled a large community of Thai laborers since the Hamas-led attacks on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Despite having nothing to do with the conflict, Thais were, after Israelis, the biggest victims of the terror that Hamas unleashed. At least 39 Thai agricultural workers were killed on Oct. 7. More than 30 were <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/11\/05\/world\/asia\/thailand-hostages-hamas-israel.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&amp;referringSource=articleShare\" title=\"\">taken hostage<\/a>, with the majority released in November 2023. Two died during captivity; one final Thai hostage remains unaccounted for.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cToday is a very emotional day,\u201d said Maris Sangiampongsa, Thailand\u2019s foreign minister, who received the five hostages at the Bangkok airport, describing how wonderful it was \u201cfor a person to be able to come home to the warmth of their family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Poverty has compelled tens of thousands of people from Thailand, particularly from the rural northeast, to find work in Israel as farmhands. Their numbers climbed in the 1990s after the first intifada, or uprising, when farm owners were looking for replacements for Palestinian workers, and are now around 30,000. About 5,000 of them worked the fields near the border with Gaza, helping to grow much of the fresh produce eaten in Israel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Salaries in Israel \u2014 for picking avocados, raising chickens, tending strawberries \u2014 are at least five times that of those back home in Isaan, as the northeast is known. So transformative is the money that thousands of Thais stayed in Israel even after the Oct. 7 killings. Others have continued to travel there on new contracts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Danger continues to stalk them. In October, Hezbollah rockets killed four Thais in northern Israel. The same month, another Thai died near the Israel-Lebanon border when ordnance exploded in an orchard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">For months, Mr. Vilas made pilgrimages to Buddhist temples, pleading for the safety of his son, Mr. Pongsak. He grew practiced at the ritual of prayer: the incense, the marigolds, the hands brought together in supplication.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Just before midnight on Sunday, he boarded a van for the long drive to Bangkok to reunite with his son, arriving at the airport before dawn. His family could not afford a plane ticket, he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">His son, he said, would soon be ordained as a monk to show his gratitude for survival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt felt like I died and I was reborn,\u201d Mr. Pongsak said of his captivity and release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">At the Bangkok airport, Nukan Suwannakham, the mother of another hostage, Sathian Suwannakham, marveled that even after 15 months of captivity her son looked healthy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cHe even looks fatter,\u201d Ms. Nukan said. \u201cHe has chubbier cheeks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Her son told her that all he did in captivity was \u201ceat and sleep.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The hostages survived mostly on pita, beans and vegetables, they said, along with a little meat. The flavors were far blander than the fiery cuisine of Isaan, with its chilies and fermented flourishes. Months indoors left the hostages lacking vitamin D, Thai diplomats said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Anong Saethao, the 22-year-old wife of Bannawat Saethao, another hostage, held her husband\u2019s hand at the airport. She stroked his back. She nestled into his shoulder. They have three children, ages 16 months, 4 and 6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The children knew only that their father was working abroad, she said. They were too young to know the truth about his 15 months as a hostage, longer than the time he had actually worked as a farmhand in Israel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Even if other Thai laborers have returned to Israel or are willing to do so, Ms. Anong said her family was different. No money is worth such risks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI will never allow him to work abroad again,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/09\/world\/asia\/thai-hostages-gaza-home.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Gate 10 of the arrivals hall of the Bangkok airport, Wichayada Saeyang 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