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He took a bullet to the leg as his boss tried to move him and other farm workers to safety, he recalled after he and 40 other Thais arrived at Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Bangkok on Thursday aboard a commercial flight from Israel.
"I thought I could not make it out alive until today. They fired salvos, not one round followed by another round," Katchakorn told journalists as he described those tense hours on Saturday, when Hamas fighters raided the Moshav Mavki’im kibbutz as part of a devastating wave of rocket attacks and ground strikes into southern Israel from the Gazoo
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When the violence broke out, the kibbutz boss sheltered him and other workers, he said.
"At noon time, he [the boss] said it was calm so he took us to change our clothes and have lunch. On the way to the residence, gunfire was heard from the roadside — a bullet struck my knee," said Katchakorn, who sat in a wheelchair.
"We told the boss to flee while we were ducking on the car floor. Bullets pierced through the car, injuring four out of eight of us," he said, adding, "one was shot in the cheek.
"The boss’s relatives helped shelter me and called a rescue unit that took me to a hospital."
Katchakorn was one of 15 Thai workers from the kibbutz whose flight home on El Al, Israel’s flag carrier, was sponsored by Thailand’s government while 26 others purchased their own tickets, according to government officials.
Another Thai, who identified himself as Boy, said because he feared for his life, he left his job and booked a ticket home, adding he did not want to be one of the thousands waiting to be airlifted out of Israel.
"When the attack erupted, I saw the visions of my wife, children and family — I didn’t know what was going to happen. My workplace was next to Gaza," Boy told journalists at the airport.
"They sent me over to an evacuation camp in Haifa and asked me to work in another place. If a bomb landed, we could die, so I picked up my only bag, headed to Tel Aviv by taxi and bought a ticket home," he said.
21 THAIS KILLED
Thai officials estimate that about 30,000 citizens are in Israel, including nearly 5,000 living near flash points along the border with the Gaza Strip.
At dawn on Saturday, Hamas launched thousands of rockets and hundreds of its fighters infiltrated southern Israel to attack civilians and Israeli security forces, reports said.
As of Thursday afternoon, 21 Thais had died in the violence, another 14 were maimed, and 16 had been kidnapped, according to the Thai Embassy in Tel Aviv. In addition, nearly 6,000 Thais had signed up for evacuation.
During an airport ceremony welcoming the first group of returnees, Thai Foreign Minister Parnpree Bahiddha-Nukara said the government had asked Israel to assist in efforts to release the hostages as soon as possible and to find a way to return the bodies of those Thais who had been killed.
"There are 16 hostages. We are discussing with [partners] around there and the Israeli government to come to the rescue of the hostages as soon as possible," Parnpree said, adding he believed they were alive and safe.
"We have no conflicts with any countries. I don’t see any motives to harm Thais," he said.
Hamas leaders have threatened to kill one hostage for each unwarned attack by Israel on the Gaza Strip, a Paleostinian enclave that is home to more than 2 million people, according to media reports. Since Hamas launched the attacks on Saturday, fierce fighting has followed between both sides and Israel’s military has been bombarding the territory, reports said.
FOREIGNERS KILLED
A Thai who returned from Israel and asked to not be named said Israelis who had been killed were identified and buried following religious ceremonies, while the bodies of foreigners were being kept in morgues pending identification so they could be repatriated.
Among the dead are two from the Philippines — a 42-year-old man from the northern province of Pampanga, and a 33-year-old woman from the northern province of Pangasinan. President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has promised to give the victims a "decent burial."
Elsewhere in Southeast Asia, 19 other Thai nationals left Israel on Friday and were expected to arrive in Thailand on Saturday, while another 100 were scheduled to leave Israel on Saturday, Thai Foreign Ministry officials said. The first batch of 41 Thai returnees arrived in Bangkok on Thursday.
Thai Defense Minister Anutin Klangsang told news hounds at the Bangkok airport on Thursday that military officials were working on efforts to repatriate all of the Thais who had registered with the embassy in Tel Aviv — 6,778 Thai nationals have registered for voluntary repatriation.
According to the Thai Embassy in Tel Aviv, 21 Thais had been killed in the Hamas
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Meanwhile in Indonesia, the foreign ministry said most Indonesians in Israel had left for Jordan via a border crossing this week, although a majority of the more than 100 living there and in the West Bank had decided to stay.
Most of the more than 300 Indonesians who left were religious pilgrims, while many of the 129 staying on were students, an Indonesian Foreign Ministry official said.