Thai worker’s body stuck in Israel as scared co-workers also stay put

While his Thai co-workers claimed they were terrified by the dying but were forced to remain there for economic reasons, the home of a Thai contractor who was killed in an Israeli apple orchard waited patiently for the repatriation of his body.

Nisant Meeram’s 42-year-old family described his death as tragic and worrying because they had not been informed of his body’s returning from northern Israel.

Phrueksa Meeram, 43, claimed on Sunday that she attempted to contact his colleagues in the Ban Kalong town of tambon Kantrarom in the Krasang region to request their return of her late husband’s body, but they informed her that they had been moved to a safer location and that his body might be transported elsewhere for autopsy.

Ms. Phrueksa shared that she and her two kids, ages 18 and 12, that her relatives was shocked by the death of her father.

Because the home had debts totaling more than 1 million baht and related to their cars and agricultural products, she claimed Nisant had gone to work in Israel in December 2020.

After the Israel-Hamas conflict broke out in October last year, he returned to Thailand. His Jewish employer called him about seven months later to resume his fruit-picking job that in accordance with his five-year, three-month employment contract.

Due to the family’s financial constraints, he returned to Israel in June despite family members ‘ opposition.

Ms. Phrueksa claimed she contacted her partner every day and texted him messages to make sure he was safe. Her final call to him occurred on Friday at around 10 a.m. ( at 6 a.m. in Israel ).

She received no response in any of his later messages to him, and a fellow worker let her know about his death. A weapon that was already in the apple orchard where Nisant worked exploded on Saturday night, according to the Thai embassy in Tel Aviv.

A second Thai colleague, who merely identified himself as M, claimed in a video phone on Sunday that they were one of 24 Thai employees working in the apple orchard, and that four columns of Thai employees were picking apples just before the blast. M was the third in the same row while Nisant was the next.

When employees heard an blast, they ducked and after a contractor shouted that Nisant was hit and killed, M said.

Troops took Nisant’s physique from the garden and no other Thai employees saw the system again, M said.

He claimed that all the remaining Thai employees there were deeply concerned about their health after the event but did not want to go back to Thailand straight away because they were responsible for the financial stress of their families.

Nisant Meeram and his family were last seen in an apple garden in Israel on Friday when they were last seen together. ( Photo supplied )