Thai worker in Israel still unconscious
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A Thai worker in Israel - wounded by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip early on Saturday - remains unconscious and under close watch by doctors in hospital, Thai Foreign Ministry spokesman Thani Thongpakdi said on Sunday.
Three other Thai workers injured in the same attack had been discharged by doctors, he said.
Israeli media reported that the four wounded Thais worked on a farm in Ein Habesor City near the border with the Gaza Strip, about 100 kilometres from Tel Aviv.
They were taken to a hospital in Be’er Sheva by helicopter.
Thani said diplomats from the Thai Embassy in Tel Aviv had been dispatched to the hospital to help the injured workers.
The group worked in Israel legally and their employers had already taken care of the medical expenses.
The spokesman refused to reveal the names of the workers, but said their families in Thailand had been informed of their condition and details.
Israeli airstrikes on Friday and early Saturday killed up to 10 Palestinians, most of them alleged militants, in the Gaza Strip. But militants fired a barrage of rockets back into southern Israel in the worst crossborder fighting in months.
The Thai workers were injured in the second airstrike, which saw at least 20 rockets were fired into Israeli territory.
