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Caught in the crossfire

Thousands of Thai workers in Israel have hard decisions to make

A woman in Nakhon Phanom calls a family memeber working in Israel who is caught up in the violent conflict. (Photo: Pattanapong Sripiachai)

Nupha Phansa-at, 63, still left in a state of shock after learning that her son, Somkhwan, who had gone to work on a banana plantation in Israel, was probably one of the workers killed in an attack carried out as a new round of the Israel-Gaza conflict erupted on Saturday.

Her daughter, Somkhwan’s older sister, called Ms Nupha at 4am on Sunday to inform her that she had…

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