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A |     BANGKOK -- The first group of Thai workers evacuated from Israel after the past few days’ bloody events in southern Israel and Gaza arrived Thursday in the Thai capital of Bangkok, greeted by anxious relatives and senior officials.Hamas militants stormed through a border fence Saturday and killed hundreds of Israelis in their homes, on the streets and at an outdoor music festival. The Israelis have responded with punishing airstrikes and preparations for a possible ground invasion. The conflict has claimed at least 2,600 lives on both sides, including some Southeast Asian workers living in Israel.The 41 Thais who returned home on a commercial flight of the Israeli airline El Al included two men wounded in the violence who had to use wheelchairs to exit the aircraft.Farm laborers from Thailand seek work in more developed countries where there is a shortage of semi-skilled labor — at wages considerably higher than they can earn at home.Tens of thousands of workers in Israel from nations including Thailand and the Philippines send their earnings home to support their families. That money also helps to fire up their native countries’ economies.But the appearance of Thais and Filipinos on the lists of dead, wounded and missing in the past few days is a reminder that foreign workers toil in peril of their lives.About 30,000 Thais are working in Israel, according to the Thai Foreign Ministry, and about 5,000 of them live in the southern area near the border with Gaza.One of them, Katchakorn Pudtason, said his employer at the farm where he worked initially herded all his workers into a bunker when Saturday's attacks took place, but after they left it for lunch they could still hear shooting. As they were being driven back to their workplace, Katchakorn heard more gunshots and felt something hit his knee, he said.“I thought it was a rock but it went through. So I hit the truck and told the driver to drive away,” he said. He added that he was one of four people in the vehicle who suffered injuries that day. He was one of the two returnees who had to use a wheelchair.Thailand's Cabinet ministers for labor, defense and foreign affairs were at Bangkok's international airport for the evacuees' arrival. The government has vowed to look after the evacuees' physical and mental well-being.Foreign Minister Parnpree Bahiddha-Nukara said 5,990 Thais have registered to be evacuated and officials are working around the clock to accommodate them.“We need a Plan B to take out as many people as possible,” said Defense Minister Suthin Klangsaeng. “We will use military aircraft to evacuate people from the high-risk area to a third country, such as (the United Arab Emirates).”The number of Thais affected by the tragedy stood out in lists of non-Israeli nationals affected by the violence: Thailand’s foreign ministry Thursday said 21 Thais are believed dead and 14 wounded. Sixteen were believed to have been taken hostage.Survivor Chatree Chasri left his home in northeastern Thailand in 2019 to work in Israel as an agricultural laborer to pay off debts and provide for his wife and two children back home in Nakhon Phanom. Foreign work is a common path for Thais from the country’s economically disadvantaged rural areas, especially the northeast.Working under a government-to-government agreement, the 38-year-old has been farming tomatoes and cauliflower for the past four years in the southern Israeli town of Mivtahim, less than 10 kilometers (6 miles) away from Israel’s border with Gaza.Despite the occasional shelling and rocket attacks that sent him running for cover, his life at the farm had been OK until Saturday, he said from Israel in a phone interview with The Associated Press. Now he says he wants to come home, and never go back to Israel.Chatree was shot several times in his hip shortly after Hamas launched its rocket attacks and shock ground offensive into southern Israel, killing hundreds of people and capturing more than 100 who were hauled back to Gaza as hostages.Chatree was using a toilet at the farm where he works with other foreign laborers when he suddenly heard gunshots.“The sounds came closer and bullets went through the wall of the toilet,” he said, recalling the moment he was hit. He then saw two gunmen making their way into the workers' living quarters and open fire, so the workers fled outside to hide.Vibhavadi Vannachai, a Thai expatriate who has lived in Israel for nearly two decades and is coordinating with Israeli authorities to help the Thai workers, fears the number of victims may rise.Vibhavadi, originally from Nong Bua Lamphu province in Thailand’s northeast, works as an interpreter in a legal office whose cases mostly involve resolving disputes between Thai workers and their employers.She said abuse and violations of their rights are common, with many bound by years-long contracts but cheated of their wages. Many are forced to work long hours and are beaten if they refuse. Some have to live in “quarters that are not fit for human beings,” she said.Vibhavadi helped find temporary accommodations for Chatree and Padoong Bootmo, a 26-year-old Thai worker shot on Saturday who said the potato and yam farm where he works in Yesha was raided twice by gunmen and then burned down. Padoong said in a phone interview he had been able to send 40,000 baht ($1,100) home each month. He might under the best of circumstances make less than half that doing the same job in Thailand, but he said he doesn’t want to stay in Israel anymore.The killing of at least two Filipino foreign workers underscored the threats also faced by those workers in Israel. About 30,000 Filipinos live and work in the country many as caregivers who look after the elderly, the ill and those with physical disabilities, according to the Philippines' foreign ministry. The huge income they send back home, which last year amounted to an all-time high of $36.14 billion, has helped keep the country’s fragile economy afloat.One of the two Filipinos killed Saturday was a caregiver who was shot with her employer inside their house by Hamas gunmen, according to the Philippines Embassy in Israel. The other was killed under still-unclear circumstances.At least three Filipinos remain missing, embassy officials have said.Still, Foreign Undersecretary Eduardo de Vega said Wednesday that no Filipino has asked to be repatriated from Israel. Jeremiah Supan, a 34-year-old Filipino caregiver in Israel, told The Associated Press in a telephone interview Wednesday that he made it clear to Philippines officials he did not want to return home. As the family breadwinner, he sends his earnings home to enable his 10-year-old son to remain in school and sustain other loved ones."The rocket firings continue” Supan said. “But if I leave, all that assistance that I send to my family back home will be lost.”___Gomez reported from Manila. Associated Press writer Grant Peck contributed.。    消息一：范乔丹迎复出利好，火箭后场终于完整          NBA官网在最新西南赛区前瞻中指出，范乔丹预计将在缺席整个上赛季后回归，他的复出将成为火箭新赛季的重要补强，同时有望重新承担主要组织任务。火箭上赛季拿到52胜，却止步季后赛首轮，新赛季随着范乔丹回归，加上斯玛特、博格丹加入，后场配置明显升级。对于火箭来说，范乔丹最大的作用并不是得多少分，而是稳定半场进攻，上赛季球队缺少真正控卫，阿门承担了大量持球任务，如今范乔丹回归后，阿门可以重新把更多精力放在防守、转换和篮板上，这反而有利于发挥他的优势。

B | NBA官网也认为，火箭上赛季首轮出局低于预期，新赛季补强后理应把目标放得更高。

C |          消息二：谢泼德交易讨论升温，后场位置越来越挤          范乔丹回归对于火箭是利好，但对于谢泼德来说，竞争压力却越来越大。

D | 目前火箭后场拥有范乔丹、阿门、谢泼德、斯玛特、博格丹以及新秀布鲁斯-桑顿，NBA官网也直接指出，随着后场深度增加，谢泼德仍需要继续竞争自己的出场时间。更值得关注的是，火箭今年夏天对于交易的态度明显更加开放，此前美媒SI消息称，阿门是阵容中唯一接近“非卖品”的球员，其他核心并没有被主动兜售，但如果出现合适报价，管理层愿意听取方案。谢泼德上赛季场均已经能够贡献13.5分，三分命中率接近四成，又只有22岁，这让他拥有不错的交易价值。不过火箭现在真正需要考虑的，还是争冠窗口与培养年轻人之间如何取舍，除非能够换回明显升级的即战力，否则轻易送走谢泼德并不划算。         消息三：再签23岁后卫，火箭19人名单成型          火箭还补上了最后一个双向合同名额，与23岁后卫肖恩-佩杜拉达成双向合同。

E | 佩杜拉上赛季效力发展联盟期间表现亮眼，场均能够得到20.3分4.5助，并拿到发展联盟最佳新秀，随着他加入，火箭三个双向名额全部确定，另外两人分别是夸迪尔-科普兰和特里斯滕-牛顿。目前火箭休赛期名单达到19人，其中包括12份全额保障标准合同、2份部分或非保障合同、2份Exhibit 10合同以及3份双向合同，距离休赛期21人上限还有两个位置。不过佩杜拉想直接获得NBA轮换机会并不容易，火箭现在最不缺的就是后卫，他更多还是球队继续储备年轻持球手的一次低成本尝试。         消息四：克莱离开独行侠，火箭迎西南赛区利好          最后一条消息来自西南赛区竞争对手独行侠。克莱与独行侠完成买断后预计加盟热火，SI火箭频道直接将这次离队形容为火箭的利好,过去两个赛季，克莱为独行侠场均得到12.9分，三分命中率38.7%，虽然36岁的他早已不是巅峰状态，但依旧是可靠的外线火力点。上赛季独行侠面对火箭打出2胜2负，如今克莱离开后，球队外线深度再次下降，而且欧文还存在伤病恢复问题,对于新赛季继续冲击西部前列的火箭来说，西南赛区少一个稳定射手型老将，自然算得上一条间接利好。

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