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Thu Dec 4, 2025, 11:37 AM Thursday

Body of Sudthisak Rinthalak, Thai farmer and family breadwinner, returned to Israel [View all]

Israeli officials confirmed Thursday that the body returned from the Gaza Strip a day earlier was Sudthisak Rinthalak, a Thai agricultural worker who came to Israel to financially support his family back home.

Military and Foreign Ministry representatives said they had notified Rinthalak’s family that his body was returned to Israel by Palestinian terror groups, after forensic experts completed identification efforts overnight. The Thai Foreign Ministry also said it had been notified by Israeli authorities of the development.

Rinthalak, an agricultural worker from Thailand, was murdered by Hamas-led terrorists near Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7, 2023, and his body was taken captive to Gaza by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. He was 43 years old. His body was located by the Islamic Jihad terror group in the northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday morning. Islamic Jihad and Hamas handed over the body to the Red Cross in the afternoon, who then brought it to the IDF.

With his return, the body of just one slain hostage remains in Gaza: police officer Master Sgt. Ran Gvili, who was killed and abducted while battling terrorists in the border community of Alumim on the morning of October 7.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/body-of-sudthisak-rinthalak-thai-farmer-and-family-breadwinner-returned-to-israel/

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