16 October 2023 at 17:54 PUBLISHED
According to Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin, an extra Thai contractor was confirmed killed in Israel and another was taken prisoner, and the position there is still dire.
Prior to leaving for China to attend the 3rd Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation ( BRF ) in Beijing on October 16 – 20, Mr. Srettha gave a speech at Suvarnabhumi airport.
He claimed that another Thai employer had passed away and another had been taken as a prisoner, bringing the total number of Thai deaths to 29 and those who had taken hostages to 18. He did not provide any further information.
The prime minister claimed that he had also been informed that six Thai employees who were scheduled to board the most recent journey back to Thailand did not arrive. Thai officials made numerous attempts to get in touch with them. They were thought to be in fight regions and unable to leave.
The A340-500 plane of the Royal Thai Air Force, which returned 130 Thais on Monday night, was the most recent trip.
On Monday at 4 p.m., the moment Mr. Srettha was scheduled to arrive in Beijing, a meeting on aircraft preparations had been scheduled at the Foreign Ministry. By the end of November, he had instructed them to search for additional planes and remove all of the roughly 7,000 Thais who wanted to return to Israel.
When questioned about the Thai hostages, the excellent minister acknowledged that despite reports of progress in agreements, there had been no encouraging signs of their release.
The ongoing battle and the rising death toll among Thai workers, according to Mr. Srettha, were concerning. In order to free the captives and return them home as soon as possible, he had given representatives the go-ahead to do everything they had.
Mr. Srettha responded that he had already told the Jewish ambassador that this was intolerable when asked about reports that some Siamese workers were being forced by their Zionist employers to continue working despite the fact that the nation was currently at war. She had consented to investigate.