i'm issariya praithongyaem and i'm a journalist with bbc‘s thai service in london. a year ago, i started to get worrying messages from thai workers in israel. they were telling me that they were being abused and exploited. being from thailand myself, i wanted to find out what was happening. we are starting our investigation in southern israel after a tip—off about a farm not far from gaza. agriculture in israel is organised into hundreds of gated communities called moshavs. each moshav contains dozens of farms and farmhouses. it actually looks nice here. big trees, colourful flowers, nice houses. this is the home of a well—established farming family on a moshav. the thai workers they employ live just a stone's throw away. 15 workers share these wooden huts. this accommodation isn't temporary, they work here isn't seasonal. these are the only homes these young men and women will know in israel. this man was 29 when we met him. like most of the workers here, he is from the north—east of thailand. he had left his village three years before because his parents and his w