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Nevin Al Sukari - Sana'a - Thai nationals who were taken hostage by Hamas militants and recently released, walk toward a bus as they leave the Shamir Medical Centre near the city of Ramla, heading toward the airport to be flown home November 29, 2023. — Picture via Oren ZIV / AFP
BANGKOK, Nov 30 — Seventeen Thai hostages kidnapped and held for weeks by Hamas in the Gaza Strip are expected to return home today to be met by overjoyed relatives at the Bangkok airport.
Tens of thousands of Thais were working in Israel, mostly in the agricultural sector, when Palestinian militants poured over the border on October 7, killing 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapping about 240, according to Israeli authorities.
At least 32 Thais were abducted by Hamas, with Bangkok’s foreign ministry and Thai Muslim groups working to negotiate their release.
Today, at around 3.00pm (0800 GMT), 17 are expected to land at the capital’s Suvarnabhumi airport following weeks in captivity.
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Accompanying them is Thai Foreign Minister Parnpree Bahiddha-Nukara, who flew to Israel earlier this week.
Ten of the group were released last Friday, as a truce began following weeks of negotiations brokered by Qatar, Egypt and the United States. Seven more were set free by Hamas in the days that followed.
The group has been recuperating at a hospital in Israel as authorities made preparations to fly them home, Thai officials said.
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Four more Thais were released yesterday and are undergoing medical checks, the foreign ministry said, taking the total number freed to 23, with nine still in captivity.
Israel retaliated to the Hamas attack with a massive campaign of air, artillery and naval strikes alongside a ground offensive into Gaza, killing nearly 15,000 people, mostly civilians, according to Palestinian officials.
Thailand had 30,000 citizens in Israel when the raid occurred, the majority of them migrant workers from poorer provinces in the kingdom’s northeast.
Thirty-nine Thais have been killed and 19 wounded in the war, with the kingdom evacuating more than 8,500 of its people, according to Bangkok’s foreign ministry. — AFP
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