Rumors about fighting Hamas are “false.”
According to reports, the Foreign Affairs Ministry refutes claims that some Thai employees were recruited by the Israeli martial to fight Hamas.
According to the ministry, although there are dual-citizen Thai-Israelis serving in the Israeli army reserve, the Israel Defence Forces ( IDF) have not hired any Thai personnel.
The agency’s comments came in response to social media rumors that Thai soldiers were being recruited to serve in the Jewish troops.
According to the government, 400–500 Thai females are known to have wed Jewish men, and their children have dual citizenship.
These two citizens, according to the Thai embassy in Tel Aviv, were people of the Israeli military supply.
Regardless of gender, all Jewish citizens are drafted at the age of 18. Both the men and the women may provide terms of 32 and 24 months, respectively. They continue to be part of the Israeli military reserve after that.
According to the government, the IDF has enlisted more than 350,000 reserve soldiers—roughly 4 % of the inhabitants —since the Hamas assault on Israel on October7.
Among those military reserve members were Thais with two membership. According to the government, there were no Thai soldiers serving in the Jewish troops.
It advised against disseminating false information because it might lead to misunderstandings both domestically and abroad.
Prior to this, Lt. Gen. Pongsakorn Rodchompoo, a previous assistant secretary-general of the National Security Council who has been monitoring the issue in the Gaza Strip, claimed that simply Thai laborers had been employed it. This raises concerns among Hamas that some of these employees may be soldiers.
He insisted, however, that Thai people are regular staff who are merely trying to make a living.
Yesterday, Thirachai Saenkaew, the head of a House committee that is keeping an eye on Thai staff affected by the Israel-Ghast war, spoke with the Departments of Employment and Consular Affairs about the situation.
According to a meeting source, judicial affairs officials told the subpanel that protected areas, like those close to the Arabah plain, which borders Israel and Jordan, continue to exist even as the war intensifies.
The officials informed the committee that Israel’s secretary of agribusiness and rural development had requested a meeting with the Thai ambassador to discuss the number of Thai workers who had left the country in order to get Sri Lankan replacements.
However, according to the supply cited by the diplomatic affairs officials, the Israeli minister expressed wish that more Thai workers would choose to remain in Israel because he promised they could keep working in the secure areas.
According to the cause, the 20,000 Thai employees still working in Israel are located far from the conflict areas.
Thai officials were cited as saying that Thai workers will gain once the crime has subsided when the Israeli minister attempted to persuade them to evaluate repatriating the Thai employees.
Before Hamas ‘ cross-border attacks on October 7th, there were reportedly about 30 000 Thai staff in Israel.
They have a significant impact on the agricultural industry it. Since then, about 8,000 have been repatriated.
Over 20,000 Thai employees chose to remain despite the worsening issue, according to a report from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday.
About 6,661 Thai returnees have requested payment from the security account of the Labour Ministry for foreign workers, according to the Department of Employment.
2, 386 applications for more than 35 million rmb have been approved by the government.
In addition to the 15, 000 ringgit they will get from the security account for foreign workers, the government has agreed, according to Labour Minister Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn, to compensate the Thai staff who have been repatriated.