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To: ggersh who wrote (217842)	11/18/2025 11:59:03 AM
From: Pogeu Mahone	Respond to of 217847

South Africa Has been a large Palestinian backer supposedly and are complete hypocrites. 300 Palestinians are 300 to many for South Africa. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on April 28, 2025. (Mauro PIMENTEL / POOL / AFP) South Africa said Monday the surprise arrival of 153 Palestinians on a plane last week indicated “a clear agenda to cleanse Palestinians” out of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. The group landed in Johannesburg on a chartered flight on Thursday without departure stamps from Israel in their passports. The Haaretz daily revealed Sunday that a shadowy organization operated by a dual Israeli-Estonian national was behind that flight along with several others chartered for those seeking to flee Gaza. The agency is called Al-Majd, and its website describes its aim as “providing aid and rescue efforts to Muslim communities in conflict and war zones.” Haaretz revealed that the Defense Ministry body tasked with helping Gazans leave the strip referred Al-Majd to Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) in order to advance the effort. “We are suspicious, as the South African government, about the circumstances surrounding the arrival of the plane,” Foreign Minister Ronald Lamola told reporters. Palestinians fleeing Gaza sit aboard a plane detained at O.R. Tambo Airport in Johannesburg, South Africa, November 13, 2025. (Screen capture: X)South African border police kept the group on the plane for 12 hours before President Cyril Ramaphosa allowed them entry on a standard 90-day visa exemption. It emerged later that an earlier flight carrying 176 Palestinians had arrived on October 28, according to the local Gift of the Givers charity that is assisting the arrivals. “We do not want any further flights to come our way because this is a clear agenda to cleanse out Palestinians out of Gaza and the West Bank and those areas, which South Africa is against,” Lamola said. “It does look like it represents a broader agenda to remove Palestinians from Palestine into many different parts of the world, and is a clearly orchestrated operation,” he said. Still, the hesitance to take in the fleeing Gazans exposed South Africa to allegations of hypocrisy, given their long-held supposed support for the Palestinian cause. A group waves a Palestinian flag and hoists a sign reading ‘Drag Artists for Palestine’ during the annual Pride Parade in Cape Town, South Africa, March 2, 2024. (RODGER BOSCH / AFP)‘Misled’South Africa, which is set to host world leaders at the G20 summit this weekend, is seen as one of the strongest supporters of the Palestinian cause. Pretoria filed a case against Israel with the International Court of Justice in 2023, accusing it of genocide in Gaza. The Gift of the Givers NGO told AFP the Palestinians it is assisting said they had paid around $2,000 per person to Al-Majd for the trip and did not know they were going to South Africa. “What we’ve been told is that they were promised some type of travel out of Gaza to some form of safety in a country that would welcome them,” representative Sarah Oosthuizen told AFP. Some of the passengers appeared to have been misled about their final destination, with a few believing they were headed to Indonesia, Malaysia or India, she said. Travelers in the first group “definitely did not know that they were coming to South Africa,” Oosthuizen said. The second group — which included men, women and children — flew from Israel’s Ramon airport to Nairobi before boarding the chartered plane to Johannesburg, she said. The accommodation they had been promised on arrival turned out to have been booked for only up to a week, and “when they were settled in these accommodations, their contact with Al-Majd went silent,” Oosthuizen said. Some of the group had told the NGO that they wished to apply for asylum, she said. Protesters gather at the South African Parliament during civil society and faith-based organizations’ mass anti-Israel rally in Cape Town on September 27, 2025. (RODGER BOSCH / AFP)‘Investigating’The Palestinian embassy in South Africa said Thursday the travel of both groups “was arranged by an unregistered and misleading organization that exploited the tragic humanitarian conditions of our people in Gaza.” The group had “deceived families, collected money from them, and facilitated their travel in an irregular and irresponsible manner,” it said. When AFP in Jerusalem tried to contact Al-Majd, none of the numbers listed on their website were in service. Their linked address only led to the East Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah. Israeli authorities told AFP over the weekend that the 153 Palestinians had been allowed to leave Gaza after receiving “approval from a third country to receive them,” without naming the country in question. Lamola on Monday said Pretoria was investigating the matter.