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Israeli mother and daughter attacked on Koh Pha Ngan

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An Israeli mother, 62, and her 23-year-old daughter were seriously injured in an alleged assault on Koh Pha Ngan after a man asked where they were from and was told they were Israeli.

The suspect, who holds a French passport, was later arrested after allegedly becoming involved in another violent incident. The women said they believe the attack was connected to a discussion about the war in Gaza.

Attack followed question about Israel

The mother had travelled to Thailand for a two-week visit while her daughter was already travelling in the country. They rode a motorcycle to a waterfall on Koh Pha Ngan and parked near the road before walking about 100 metres towards the site.

They were buying a coconut when a man on a motorcycle stopped behind them and began talking to them, the mother told Ynet from her hospital bed.

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"He asked my daughter where we were from, and she said Israel," she said. The man then challenged them over the war in Gaza, telling them: "I don't like what Israel is doing there."

The mother said she told him they were on holiday and did not want to discuss the issue. He replied, "I'm against violence," before the exchange ended.

Moments later, she said, the man called to them from above, came down towards them and attacked. "Out of nowhere, he started beating me viciously and bit my ear," she said.

Her daughter tried to protect her and was also beaten. The mother said she was struck on the head and apparently lost consciousness.

Both women needed surgery

The daughter ran towards the road to get help and called out to two French women. The suspect chased her, according to the mother, but fled on his motorcycle when he saw other people nearby.

Police and an ambulance were called, and the women were taken to a hospital on Koh Pha Ngan. Medical staff decided both required surgery after a CT scan found bleeding in the mother's head, prompting their transfer by boat to a hospital on Koh Samui.

Their conditions were initially described as serious but later stabilised. The mother spent 24 hours in intensive care, while her daughter underwent surgery on her nose. The mother had surgery on her ear and said she may need another operation.

Arrest linked to separate incident

The mother said police later told them the suspect had gone to another town, caused a disturbance and attacked police officers. Officers did not initially know he was connected to the assault on the two women.

After police spoke with the women and the daughter gave a statement, they recalled the suspect's name. Police then identified him as the same man allegedly involved in their case, the mother said.

She said she had considered Thailand welcoming towards Israelis and had not expected such an attack. "We will learn not to say we are from Israel, because you can never know how someone will react," she said.

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14 August 2026


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  • motdaeng
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    the best thing would be to stay in your home country and try to fight the humanitarian catastrophe and war crimes in gaza, for which your government bears responsibility ... if you need a holiday, ju

  • save the frogs
    save the frogs

    Being against the situation in Gaza does not give anyone the right to go assaulting random Israelis. Please prosecute and deport and ban the individual from the country. And it's no one's business wh

  • Jingthing
    Jingthing

    Why would anyone in their right mind want to travel to the USA now?

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Israelis can't easily hide their nationality.

The Israeli language is very easy to identity and so is English with an Israeli accent.

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40 minutes ago, Georgealbert said:

"We will learn not to say we are from Israel, because you can never know how someone will react," she said.

the best thing would be to stay in your home country and try to fight the humanitarian catastrophe and war crimes in gaza, for which your government bears responsibility ...

if you need a holiday, just go to the usa ... maga will be happy to have you there ...

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20 minutes ago, motdaeng said:

the best thing would be to stay in your home country and try to fight the humanitarian catastrophe and war crimes in gaza, for which your government bears responsibility ...

if you need a holiday, just go to the usa ... maga will be happy to have you there ...

Why would anyone in their right mind want to travel to the USA now?

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Being against the situation in Gaza does not give anyone the right to go assaulting random Israelis.

Please prosecute and deport and ban the individual from the country.

And it's no one's business where anyone is from. People should not be responding to random strangers asking where you are from.

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This is happening in many countries, non Palestinians are seriously joining in on the negative reaction to Israelis. The woke left wing world has found a cause! Israelis need to be discreet about their nationality, and maybe have to stay home.

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40 minutes ago, motdaeng said:

if you need a holiday, just go to the usa ... maga will be happy to have you there ...

You damn antisemite, I'll welcome the jews anytime.

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34 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

Why would anyone in their right mind want to travel to the USA now?

Everything you can have worldwide in one place perhaps?

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56 minutes ago, motdaeng said:

the best thing would be to stay in your home country and try to fight the humanitarian catastrophe and war crimes in gaza, for which your government bears responsibility ...

if you need a holiday, just go to the usa ... maga will be happy to have you there ...

You do realize that people themselves aren't responsible for everything their government does right? Even voting politicians in doesn't guarantee they won't screw up.

People can also go anywhere they want for a vacation, no matter where they are from, and sometimes it's to escape what's going on in their country. And the US isn't all Maga.

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11 minutes ago, fredwiggy said:

You do realize that people themselves aren't responsible for everything their government does right? Even voting politicians in doesn't guarantee they won't screw up.

People can also go anywhere they want for a vacation, no matter where they are from, and sometimes it's to escape what's going on in their country. And the US isn't all Maga.

you are right ... but i won't hold back, and i would continue to criticize and condemn my own government for its wrongdoing ...

it seems that the majority of israelis defend and support the war crimes committed by their government. shame on them ...

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15 minutes ago, motdaeng said:

you are right ... but i won't hold back, and i would continue to criticize and condemn my own government for its wrongdoing ...

it seems that the majority of israelis defend and support the war crimes committed by their government. shame on them ...

I know full well what the US has done since I was born, and some of it was and is wrong, but we can't put the blame on all citizens for the actions of voted in politicians as they promise everything and only come through on some, and sometimes do more damage than good.

There's no way of telling what others think without knowing them personally, and even if some think Trump has many backers, he's lost many also and there are millions who didn't want him in in the first place, although we didn't have a good other choice in candidates.

All politicians do stupid things, so we vote in new ones (if possible) and hope they fix the damage done by the previous ones.

Iran needed a taking down, no matter what anyone thinks, and going overboard sometimes happens in wars. How to fix the damage, along with making sure the regime doesn't keep doing what it's done for decades, isn't an easy thing, as money is involved, along with world trade, having Iran's citizens have peaceful protests without fear of death, and Israel has their own thinking, and we can't control their leaders decisions. Neither can their own citizens.

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French Arab by any chance?

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"I'm against violence" he says.

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1 hour ago, motdaeng said:

it seems that the majority of israelis defend and support the war crimes committed by their government. shame on them ...

What are you basing this statement on? A simple AI query tells me that only 37% of Israelis agree with their government today.

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1 hour ago, jacko45k said:

This is happening in many countries, non Palestinians are seriously joining in on the negative reaction to Israelis. The woke left wing world has found a cause! Israelis need to be discreet about their nationality, and maybe have to stay home.

I regard myself as far too old to be “woke” and am certainly not left wing after a working life time spent running a business.

On the other hand, from what I have read about the Israeli military operations in Gaza, serious questions have to be asked about crimes against humanity given the civilian casualties caused in the pursuit of Hamas.

So I suspect it’s not just the woke left wing world that views the Israeli government actions with, shall we say, distaste.

Why anyone would attack an individual female Israeli thousands of miles away from Israel is equally distasteful and totally illogical.

Given the additional assault reported in the article the attacker would seem to be under the influence of drugs, alcohol or mentally unstable. The whole Palestinian thing may just have been an excuse to commit violence against someone, anyone. He then moved on into town and picked a fight with someone else for some other reason.

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3 hours ago, Georgealbert said:

"Out of nowhere, he started beating me viciously and bit my ear," she said.

Maybe the guy was just hungry?

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I haven't heard the French Government or indeed very few other countries governments including my own ,standing up to strongly condemn what Netanyahu's government is doing.

Perhaps the Frenchman should have attacked himself.

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2 hours ago, motdaeng said:

the best thing would be to stay in your home country and try to fight the humanitarian catastrophe and war crimes in gaza, for which your government bears responsibility ...

if you need a holiday, just go to the usa ... maga will be happy to have you there ...

Prefer to spend time with Israelis rather then baby-killing terrorists. People like you are a big part of the problem.

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2 hours ago, jacko45k said:

maybe have to stay home.

NOT MAYBE. Better to ban them from entering ANY other country

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1 minute ago, newbee2022 said:

NOT MAYBE. Better to ban them from entering ANY other country

Well they are banned from some 15 countries already, but their own State needs to warn them of being cautious when overseas. Even the USA warned their own citizens during some of the Arab conflicts. Random acts of violence against people based purely on their Nationality, Religion etc is the definition of a racist.

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9 minutes ago, wensiensheng said:

Iran needed taking down?

I think that is a debatable statement to make.

There is a case for saying that Iran’s desire for a civilian nuclear capability was previously being very adequately policed by international agencies who had access to their nuclear sites. The Iranians would push the envelope, but the articles I have read indicated that the supervision and monitoring program was effective in stopping enrichment beyond the 2% or so required for civilian use.

Fast forward a few years and Iran has enriched uranium to over 60% and has many centrifuges. So suddenly they “need taking down”.

So how did we go from an internationally, strictly supervised, civilian nuclear program, to one that is close to weapon grade capability?

Iran only needs “taking down” due to a monumental foreign policy error that replaced a diplomatic solution with….nothing. So now the only solution left is to take them down.

Sometimes the best fights are the ones you don’t start, or provoke.

Iran's regime, not Iran's citizens. This wasn't just because of a possible nuclear weapon program but because of how they were using terrorism for decades, and killing their own citizens by the thousands.

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2 hours ago, save the frogs said:

People should not be responding to random strangers asking where you are from.

I always answer Prachuap 😁

Banned, well, not exactly going to miss going to any of these places. From AI, 13 not 15 countries as stated above.

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i do condemn the attack by this frenchman ...

the two israelis have now experienced for themselves what their own countrymen are doing to the palestinians. the difference is that israelis are taking palestinian land and killing innocent people without being held accountable ...

shame on everyone who uses violence, weapons and war to solve conflcts ...

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3 hours ago, motdaeng said:

the best thing would be to stay in your home country and try to fight the humanitarian catastrophe and war crimes in gaza, for which your government bears responsibility ...

if you need a holiday, just go to the usa ... maga will be happy to have you there ...

Israel was brutally attacked by Palestinians on 7 October 2023 when men, women, children and infants were cruelly murdered. The ongoing payback is fully justified.

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28 minutes ago, jacko45k said:

Well they are banned from some 15 countries already, but their own State needs to warn them of being cautious when overseas. Even the USA warned their own citizens during some of the Arab conflicts. Random acts of violence against people based purely on their Nationality, Religion etc is the definition of a racist.

15 countries only. Should be ALL.

Not because of racism as you try to insinuate but to put pressure on the regime to change their policy towards their neighbors.

3 hours ago, motdaeng said:

the best thing would be to stay in your home country and try to fight the humanitarian catastrophe and war crimes in gaza, for which your government bears responsibility ...

if you need a holiday, just go to the usa ... maga will be happy to have you there ...

Gazza is an autonomous region, that worked out well (sarcasm).

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I think most westerners can't wrap their mind around just how racist and brainwashed many in the Muslim world are when it comes to Israelis and Jews in general. To a rational person attacking someone solely based on their nationality or religion seems bonkers, but to a person who was indoctrinated into hating them since childhood it's a given. I've seen it happen first hand in Thailand - an Israeli tourist who was drinking with us was brutally attacked by a Lebanese Palestinian body builder shouting he's going to kill her - security dragged him out kicking and screaming and apparently had to knock him out in the parking lot. To a normal person a man attacking a woman is cowardly and unthinkable, but these cultures do not respect women. The sooner the west realizes what it is exactly they are importing wholesale - the better.

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17 minutes ago, motdaeng said:

the two israelis have now experienced for themselves what their own countrymen are doing to the palestinians. the difference is that israelis are taking palestinian land and killing innocent people without being held accountable ...

Irrelevant. Those two women have not participated in any of those things. Trying to portay it as if all Israelis share some sort of collective sin is simply an excuse to whitewash racism. "I condemn it but understand it" is not valid when it comes to hate crimes - you either condemn it or you don't.

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