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The bodies of workers from Thailand were returned to their country.

Their friends were left unprotected

The two worked in a packing house that was hit directly by a rocket in a fan seat in the Gaza Strip.

Eight other workers were injured in the incident, including one who stated that no alarm was sounded in the area at the time of launch.

The Thai ambassador addressed Netanyahu: "Concerned about workers' protection in the south."

Prime Minister: We will address the problem

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• Eshkol Regional Council

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Eli Ashkenazi and Maya Horodnichano

Wednesday, 19 May, 2021, 21:01 Updated: 21:04

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The bodies of two Thai citizens who worked in Israel and were killed yesterday (Wednesday) by a rocket will be taken for burial in their country.

The two worked in a packing house that was hit directly by a rocket in a fan seat in the Gaza Strip.

The dead are Viravat Kronburirk and Sikharin Sangmarm, and one of them came to work in Israel only last week.

Eight foreign workers from Thailand were also injured in the incident, including two in critical condition.

The Thai press reported that this was the most serious case in which Thai workers were injured during the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

The Thai Embassy in Israel has called on citizens of their country who are in the Gaza Envelope to be alerted and taken shelter during an alarm.

However, most foreign workers' workplaces do not have protection or other means of protection and therefore do not have the actual ability to take cover.

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The attack on the Eshkol Regional Council, yesterday (Photo: Shai Makhlouf)

Following the incident, the Thai ambassador to Israel addressed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi during the briefing for foreign ambassadors, saying she was concerned that Thai workers in southern Israel felt unprotected, without alarms in the area where they live and without protection. Netanyahu responded to her request, saying he would address the issue.

In an interview with the BBC, one of the Thai workers working in Israel said that where they were at the time of the shooting from Gaza - no alarm was sounded. He said the shooting occurred while they were resting between 3pm and 1pm, due to the heavy heat. The employee further added that during the break they heard two explosion sounds and then sought shelter. He noted that one of the victims died on the spot.

Danit Rosner, a translator and field worker at Kav LaOved, spoke to the injured yesterday. They told her that they were on a break and were staying at their residence, where there is a sort of shelter for him they call a "bunker", but since the alarm was not sounded they were not inside.

"In the greenhouses and fields where they work they have no means of protection. The workers from Thailand go to work every day, and their working day lasts about 12 hours, even these days. Some sleep at night in the same 'bunker', for fear of shooting, but the conditions are not suitable for long stays Of several nights, "she said.

Rosner noted that in view of the difficult security situation in the Gaza Envelope settlements, foreign workers have the right, under their employment contract, to apply to relocate.

She said individuals had requested this until yesterday.

The attack on the Eshkol Regional Council, yesterday (Photo: ZKA)

As early as 2019, the Kav LaOved organization contacted the Home Front Command, as well as the Population and Immigration Authority, regarding the lives of foreign workers during combat. Among other things, evidence was presented by foreign workers that employers endanger the lives of foreign workers even during the Home Front Command's ban, and that the authorities should investigate the issue and translate the guidelines into different languages, but did not receive a response to their inquiries.

Dr. Yahel Corlander, an expert on workers from Thailand from Tel Hai Academic College and Tel Aviv University, told Walla! “In Operation Wall Guard, as in other military operations, workers from Thailand turn out to be transparent workers whose lives are irrelevant. According to Israeli procedures, workers must live in temporary structures - in caravans and containers, housing that has already been discovered in several cases, as well as the outbreak of the corona plague as unfit for human habitation and currently without shelter and missile defense. "

Corlander noted that this adds to the problem of communication and the transmission of messages that Thai workers are entitled to - through informal networks and only through unauthorized and unsupervised translators.

"Just today, on the eighth day of the fighting, the TIC organization in charge of the workers published a page explaining the defense against missiles in the Thai language. For the two workers killed today it will no longer help," she concluded.

Price tag of about 40,000 shekels.

Protection in the Gaza Strip (Photo: Amir Bohbot)

The Thai workers who are still hospitalized at Soroka Hospital in Be'er Sheva were visited today by the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Alon Schuster.

"The harm to Thai workers comes amid repeated requests from farmers in the Gaza Strip to increase the number of shelters scattered throughout their territory," he said.

The Ministry of Agriculture said that in recent weeks the Minister has worked with officials in the Ministry of Defense to provide farmers with additional means of protection.

The price tag of a single protective jacket is NIS 40,000-35,000, and according to a preliminary survey conducted, there is an immediate need for an additional 130 shields throughout the envelope, at a cost of NIS 5-4.5 million.

Schuster emphasized that the security components in the communities adjacent to the fence must be strengthened first and foremost.

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Now, Schuster is looking for budgetary sources that will allow for the immediate purchase, transportation and placement of the new shields, as well as the copying of the existing shields to points where they are more necessary.

The director general of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development appealed to the Ministry of Finance to find budgetary sources for the increase in protection soon

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The JNF said that the shields would be deployed in cooperation with local authorities, with special reference to agricultural areas in the Gaza Strip, which would allow farmers during their work to defend themselves against repeated attacks by Hamas.

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