Why has Hamas taken so many Thai workers?

Last week I posted about five Thai hostages released by Hamas. For follow up, this is a video from last year about these workers.

this shows Hamas was not only making war on Israel but merely terrorizing people who live nearby.

And they are not the only foreigners in Israel, as I posted in an earlier post, there are equal numbers of Filipinos and Chinese. One Filipino caregiver was murdered because her patient could not evacuate, and she stayed with her. this 2023 article notes:

Thais also made up the largest single group of foreign dead and missing, with 24 confirmed killed and 21 unaccounted for.... five Nepalese hostages... There was also one Chinese hostage, one Sri Lankan, two from Tanzania and two from the Philippines.,

the joke in the USA is that immigrants/migrant workers do the work that Yanks don't want to do. In Israel, many of these jobs could of course be done by local Palestinians who are better educated than people from many Arab countries. But the threat of terror incidents make locals no longer want to hire them and of course, since some local Palestinian farm workers from Gaza directed the attack on these civilians, this source of jobs and income is less likely to improve.