{"id":59124,"date":"2023-10-11T01:21:45","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T16:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/10\/i-just-want-my-son-families-of-thai-workers-in-israel-face-painful-wait-for-news"},"modified":"2023-10-11T01:21:45","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T16:21:45","slug":"i-just-want-my-son-families-of-thai-workers-in-israel-face-painful-wait-for-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59124","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I just want my son\u2019: families of Thai workers in Israel face painful wait for news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thai government says it believes 11 of its nationals have been taken hostage by Hamas, and 18 killed<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2023\/oct\/10\/israel-hamas-war-live-updates-palestine-gaza-supernova-white-house\">Israel and Hamas at war \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There was no answer when Kanjana Patee\u2019s family called her brother\u2019s phone on Sunday, the morning after Hamas\u2019s attack on Israel. Each time that they have tried to ring since, the line has been completely dead. \u201cIt\u2019s so hard for us not to know \u2013 did he get captured, did he run away, what happened to him?\u201d says Kanjana.<\/p>\n<p>Many in Thailand are, like Kanjana, desperately waiting for news of loved ones who remain missing in Israel. Thailand is one of the biggest sources of migrant workers to the country, and the Thai government has said it believes 11 of its nationals are among those taken hostage, and that 18 were killed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/10\/i-just-want-my-son-families-of-thai-workers-in-israel-face-painful-wait-for-news\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thai government says it believes 11 of its nationals have been taken hostage by Hamas, and 18 killedIsrael and Hamas at war \u2013 live updatesThere was no answer when Kanjana Patee\u2019s family called her brother\u2019s phone on Sunday, the morning after Hamas\u2019s at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":888,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3001,1005,212,93,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hamas","category-israel","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-thailand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/888"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59125,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59124\/revisions\/59125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}