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Thailand reiterates call for Thai workers to leave Gaza Strip


AP Worldstream
06-23-2004
Dateline: BANGKOK, Thailand
The government reiterated its call for Thai laborers to leave Israel's violence-plagued Gaza Strip after one of the country's workers was fatally shot there this week, a Labor Ministry official said Wednesday.

The government in March told the employers of Thai nationals working in Gaza to evacuate them by April, said Juttathawat Intarasooksi, director-general of the Labor Ministry's Employment Department.

But Juttathawat said some workers had sneaked back in.

"We contacted our labor attache and ambassador (in Israel) to see if anyone is left ...

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