After evacuating thousands of Thais from Israel in 2023, the Thai military is thinking more about how it could get citizens out of other hotspots. Thailand’s scramble to evacuate its citizens from Israel after Hamas’ October 2023 attack has prompted more planning for evacuations from other potential war zones, according to General Songwit Noonpackdee, Thailand’s chief of defense forces. At the time of the October 7 attack, 30,000 Thais were employed in Israel, many in the agricultural sector. Nearly 50 Thais died during the attack or in Hamas captivity afterward, among the highest tolls for any foreign nationality. Thailand’s defense minister had to assure the public that no one was being abandoned but that intensifying clashes made it hard to increase the pace of evacuations.