25 October 2023 at 17:37 PUBLISHED
On Wednesday night, another 320 Vietnamese employees arrived back from Israel, bringing the total number of Thai survivors to 4, 296.
On Wednesday at around 7 a.m., the 26th mass of Thai passengers boarded SpiceJet trip SG 9014 from Tel Aviv and arrived at Suvarnabhumi airport.
Authorities led by Natanthachai Panyasurarit, investigator general of the Labour Ministry, to greet the survivors.
At the airports, everyone underwent cognitive and health examinations. Regarding their eligibility for state aid and loan suspension, officials also offered tips.
The most recent planeload brought the total amount of Thai residents to 4,296.
On Wednesday at 7.50 p.m., another 235 were scheduled to return on EI AI Israel Airlines journey LY081.
8 Thais have registered to return back, and 123 have stated they want to be in Israel, according to labor leaders at the Thai consulate in Tel Aviv. In addition, & nbsp,
30 Thai people have died as a result, along with 19 kidnapped Thais and 18 wounded. There have already been eight repatriated systems.
At 10.35 a.m. on Thursday, seven more Thai employees are scheduled to return from Israel.
On Wednesday, one of the returnees was Phitsanulok resident Veeraphan Jabsaengchan, 39. He claimed that Israel’s border regions were strained and risky, including the labor camp where he had been staying close to Lebanon and Syria. He frequently heard missiles and gunshot flying overhead.
He had spent 8 to 9 decades working in Israel, but Mr. Veeraphan declared that he would never go back.
According to Prime Minister Srettha Thaivisin, officials met on Wednesday around lunchtime to talk about how to assist those who had borrowed money to travel to and function in Israel. & nbsp,
He urged Thai employees who chose to remain in Israel to exercise extreme caution.
Israel’s position was being assessed, and it was dire. Israel had quickly begin a ground assault, he claimed.
In an effort to retain Thai workers it, Israeli employers chose to postpone salary payments and even offered higher pay, according to the prime minister.
He was awaiting the Jewish ambassador’s response on how to put pressure on Israeli companies who hadn’t yet compensated Thai employees.
The topic of mortgages Thais had taken out to give job trading fees as high as 150,000 baht per mind was discussed at today’s meeting. & nbsp,
They would be in problems if they went back home without receiving funds from their employers. According to Mr. Sretha, who also serves as finance secretary, they still had to pay off their debts.
According to Mr. Srettha, Deputy Finance Minister Kritsada Chinavicharana had suggested that the Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives ( BAAC ) might offer loans to this group of workers with an interest rate of just 0.1 % over a 20-year period, or by paying about 600 baht per month. & nbsp,
He chose not to go into more information. The problem needed to be adequately discussed first. He had spoken with the BACC and the Government Savings Bank ( GSB ) about the issue.