Thailand on Thursday urged Israel to relocate 4,000 Thai nationals working near Gaza after one of its citizens was killed, AFP reports.
Israeli police said a farm laborer, Narakorn Kittiyongkul, died on Wednesday when a projectile fired from Gaza struck the greenhouse where he was working in the southern part of the country.
The Thai Foreign Ministry said its embassy in Tel Aviv had advised its citizens to stop working in the area near Gaza.
“The Thai Embassy has contacted the Israeli Foreign Ministry and employers to ask them to relocate 4,000 Thai workers in agriculture estates near the Gaza strip immediately and unconditionally to safe areas 10 to 20 kilometers (6-12 miles) away,” ministry spokesman Sek Wannamethee told reporters in Bangkok.
“But we will not evacuate our workers from Israel yet,” he added.
Thousands of overseas workers, many from Southeast Asia, work on Israeli farms and in factories.
This is the twenty-seventh foreign worker killed by Hamas since 2001.
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