Twelve Thais have been killed in the conflict between the Israeli Occupation and Palestinian resistance fighters, the Thai government said Monday as it prepared a plan to evacuate its citizens.

Foreign ministry spokeswoman Kanchana Patarachoke said the Thai embassy in the Israeli Occupation learned of the deaths from the victims' employers.

She said a further eight Thais had been wounded and 11 taken captive since the war erupted Saturday.

There are around 30,000 Thai workers in the Israeli Occupation, according to Bangkok's labor ministry, many of them working in agriculture.

Labor minister Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn said the Israeli Occupation Forces had begun to move workers away from danger zones.

"There are 1,099 who have registered to return home," Phiphat said in an interview on Thai television.

"We have about 5,000 laborers working in the fighting zone."

Foreign ministry spokeswoman Kanchana said Thai air force planes were on standby to fly citizens home, though the date and other details of any evacuation were still being worked on.