One Thai injured in Hamas attack, 2 others reported kidnapped

A Thai citizen was injured and there are, as yet, unconfirmed reports that two others have been kidnapped in attacks launched on Israel by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on Saturday, according to the spokesperson of the Thai Foreign Ministry.

Kanchana Patarachoke said Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin has ordered the Royal Thai Air Force to put military aircraft on stand-by, for the possible emergency evacuation of Thai nationals from Israel.

At least 198 people were killed and 1,610 wounded in the Palestinian enclave of Gaza during Israel’s retaliation, after a deadly, multi-pronged attack by Hamas forces into Israel, according to the Israeli Health Ministry.

Kanchana confirmed that one Thai national, at an agricultural settlement at Mivtahim, about 8km from the Gaza strip, where some of the heaviest fighting took place, was injured.

She said the Thai Embassy in Tel Aviv has…