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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.。    示意图。（图：Sunmate Solar）建德路一间单层工厂的锌屋顶太阳能电池板近日发生火灾，引发热议。受访的太阳能公司指出，起火原因相信是与安装不当和电气故障有关。专家呼吁业主安装太阳能电池板时要注意安全，确保所有电缆连接牢固，以降低火灾风险。《8视界新闻网》早前报道，位于先驱区建德路（Kian Teck Road）的一间单层工厂，放置在锌（zinc）屋顶上的太阳能电池板着火。根据民防部队初步调查，火患相信是由太阳能电池板的电能所引起。（图：iStock）太阳能板可能起火的原因有哪些？ 接受《8视界新闻网》访问的太阳能电池板公司表示，有多种原因会导致太阳能板可能起火，包括安装不当、劣质零件、电气故障（如短路或电弧故障）、连接松动、制造缺陷、操作错误或检查不频繁等。太阳能电池板公司 Sunollo 首席执行官卡皮尔·赛斯（Kapil Seth）受访时说，太阳能光伏系统（Solar PV system），特别是那些高电压串联的系统，容易因电弧（electric arc）而引发火灾。“电弧是在电流仍在流动时连接被中断时产生的，会导致火花，因而可能引发火灾。这些电弧的电压可以高达1000伏，非常危险。”他说，有研究显示，电气电孤是屋顶太阳能蓄电池起火最常见原因，通常是因为连接器出现故障所致。太阳能电池板公司GetSolar创办人之一周博隆则说，其他原因还包括在安装或维修太阳能电池板的过程中，因为不当处理，如踩踏电池板也会导致电池板受损。他也说：“低质量的电池板，会存在制造缺陷。

二 | ”电缆的连接问题，也可能导致火患。太阳能电池板公司PMCE (Global)董事萨蒂什 （Satish）说，太阳能板起火的主要原因是屋顶上的电缆连接不当。“在安装过程中，细节至关重要，必须确保所有布线正确连接且牢固可靠，因为连接不稳可能导致过热和火花，进而引发火灾。”太阳能瓦片（solar titles）。（图：Sunollo提供）如何防止太阳能板过热？ 被问及锌屋顶会否较容易过热时，受访业者认为，锌屋顶并不比其他屋顶材料更容易过热，但与所有金属屋顶一样，锌会吸收和保持热量。他们认为，无论是金属屋顶、混凝土屋顶或粘土瓦屋顶，只要采取适当的安全安装措施，都很安全。太阳能电池板公司 Rezeca Renewables总经理郑君实说，想要防止太阳能板过热或出现短路情况，最重要就是要找经验丰富的工人进行正确安装、使用高质量的零件以及定期维修。周博隆也这么认为，他说，确保高质量的安装比什么都重要，在安装过程中应该小心处理电池板，妥善管理电缆连接，确保所有零件都按标准要求安装。“安装完毕后，应该要找经过培训的专业人员对系统进行全面的质量检查，以确保所有安装步骤都符合安全标准。”他也说，在系统中应该安装快速断电装置，以便在紧急情况下迅速切断电源，防止危险的发生。除此之外，他说，也应该使用配备电弧故障检测功能的逆变器。“大多数一线品牌的逆变器，都配备电弧故障检测功能，这允许系统在检测到电弧故障时，自动关闭系统，避免潜在的火灾风险。”卡皮尔·赛斯则给予不同的建议，他建议消费者安装太阳能瓦片（solar titles）或安装使建材一体型太阳光电系统（Building-Integrated Photovoltaics）。他说，太阳能瓦片既能像传统屋顶材料一样美观实用，同时还能发电。“这些瓦片由光伏材料制成，能够将阳光转化为电能，最重要的是太阳能瓦片不会引发火患。”值得一提，安装太阳能瓦片的费用与安装普通太阳能板的费用一样，所以是个再好不过的选择。

三 | 使建材一体型太阳光电系统（Building-Integrated Photovoltaics）。（图：Sunollo提供）安装太阳能板 大大节省电费 受访的太阳能电池板公司都认为，本地企业安装太阳能电池板的情况已经越来越普及。周博隆说，新加坡企业安装太阳能板的市场正在迅速增长，他的公司在过去两年已为近300多名业主安装太阳能。

四 | 他说，安装太阳能板能节省多少费用，视乎公司的屋顶大小和能耗而异。

五 | “一般上太阳能板可以抵消30%至50%的能耗，例如，我们为其中一个客户约1500平方米的屋顶空间，每月节省约8000元。”萨蒂什也认为，新加坡企业对太阳能的需求相当高。“我们公司每天平均进行五次安装。客户通过转向太阳能，可以将电费降低多达80%。”郑君实则说，公司可以显著节省电费，通常能将电费降低20%至50%。

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