The Interior Ministry will take action to end the dispute between the owner of an exotic animal zoo on Koh Samui and an Israeli family who were refused entry, Deputy Interior Minister Polapee Suwunchwee said on Sunday.
Mr Polapee said he discussed the issue with the governor of Surat Thani province, whose office oversees the island. He and other officials would take action to end the dispute.
An Israeli couple and their two children, aged 6 and 9, claim they were refused entry to Samui Exotic Park on Aug 12.
There were earlier reports of signs having been posted there with messages welcoming Palestinians free of charge and denying entry to Israelis.
The zoo operator then received threats and messages threatening to remove the zoo from Koh Samui, it was reported.
A Facebook user who was understood to be the zoo operator recently accused some Israeli visitors of refusing to pay the admission fee, taking animal feed from other visitors’ baskets, failing to follow the rules and squeezing milk onto pigs’ faces.
Mr Polapee said officials would meet with all parties involved and bring the dispute to an end. He said the row was between the zoo management and expats living here, not tourists.
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