Distraught parents of Thai seized in Israel plead: 'help the hostages'
When 26-year-old Natthaporn Onkaew headed for Israel two years ago to join thousands of fellow Thai migrants and take a job as a farm worker, his father warned him not to go. "I asked him: 'Are you sure that you want to go to this dangerous country where there are conflicts all the time?' But he said it was fine," Thawatchai Onkaew said at the small family home in the sleepy northeastern village of Baan Nong Saeng. Now his words have come hauntingly true: Natthaporn is among 11 Thais and scores of other hostages taken by Hamas militants in their unprecedented assault on I...