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一 |     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.。    北京时间8月9日，一则关于拉塞尔威斯布鲁克的消息在篮球圈传开。这位36岁的前MVP接受了CNN专访，亲口回应了自己的自由球员处境。当被问及未来去向时，威少直言：“说实话，我不会去想这些问题。

二 | 我热爱打篮球，如果机会出现，那就顺其自然，这就是我的计划。”这番话与他去年休赛期的淡定如出一辙，当时他也是等到训练营临近才与国王敲定合同。         威少的态度很明确：钱不是问题。据透露，他不在乎合同金额，哪怕不给钱也行。他想要的只是上场打球的机会，大约25分钟的出场时间，当然，还得有球在手。这种“不为钱打球”的姿态，放在一个生涯总薪资超过3亿美元的巨星身上，显得既洒脱又令人唏嘘。         但现实是残酷的。上赛季威少为国王出战76场，场均15.2分、6.7次助攻、5.4个篮板，三分命中率33.8%创下生涯第二好成绩。国王总经理斯科特佩里也承认，威少的表现“远超底薪合同的价值”。

三 | 然而国王目前只有底薪空间，且希望他在新秀达柳斯阿卡夫身后扮演更小的导师角色。威少拒绝了，他拒绝的不是钱，而是“拿一分钱干一分活”的妥协。他不是为挣一份合同留在联盟，而是为了燃烧剩余的全部价值继续打球。

四 |          这就是威少如今的困境，他愿意改变，愿意接受底薪，但不愿意改变打法。

五 | 联盟30支球队的高管心里清楚：威少一上场，球场局势就可能“失控”。36岁的年纪、需要持球的打法、不稳定的投射，这些标签叠加在一起，让这位曾经的MVP在这个夏天乏人问津。有消息称，欧洲联赛开出400-500万欧元的报价，威少没去。他甚至可能面临零合同进入2026-27赛季的局面。

六 |          但威少没有退役的打算，他在采访中透露，希望能尽量多打几年，甚至期待打到2028年。

七 | 这份心气令人动容，一个拿了MVP、进了9次全明星、赚了数亿美元的球员，本可以体面退场，却仍愿为一份底薪、一个名额而苦苦等待。

八 | 他或许不再是那个飞天遁地的“神龟”，但那份对篮球的执着，从未改变。         接下来的路怎么走？ 国王仍可能是唯一的选项，但前提是威少接受“导师”定位。或者，像有些人猜测的那样，CBA会不会成为这位史上最大牌外援的下一站？无论如何，威少已经表态：只要哪里需要他，他就去哪里。这份坦然，这份热爱，值得一份尊重。

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