Migrant workers from Asia are caught in the crosshairs of the Israel-Hamas war

Jennifer Jett is Asia digital editor for NBC News, based in Hong Kong.

Ever since Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel last weekend, firing thousands of rockets, murdering civilians and seizing captives, Suriya Budsurin’s family in Thailand has been asking if he is coming home. The Southeast Asian country, one of Israel’s biggest sources of migrant labor, has had some of the highest casualties among foreign nationals in the Israel-Hamas war.

” As his employer tried to speed the truck away, Kratchakorn said, the terrorists continued chasing it and firing, hitting three other people. “I thought on that day that we would not survive because they fired the bullets nonstop,” he said. Migrant workers from Thailand, the Philippines and elsewhere go abroad in search of higher wages as farmworkers, caregivers and health care professionals, so that they can send money home to their families, boosting their countries’ economies in the process.

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