Thai workers stranded in ‘red zone’

28 ‘being forced to work’ in danger area

Twenty-eight Thai workers in Israel are urging the government to repatriate them after they were sent back to the so-called “red zone” by their employer, who they say is forcing them to continue working amid the ongoing conflict.

Pongsakorn Intaworn, 31, who hails from Ban Dung district in Udon Thani, claimed during a video call that he and 27 fellow Thai workers at a tomato farm had been abandoned in Yated, a small town in southern Israel 10 kilometres from the Gaza Strip.

He said earlier that their Israeli employer had evacuated the Thai workers to a remote town 200km from Yated…