When a chartered flight carrying over 150 Palestinians from Gaza landed in Johannesburg, confusion arose as passengers lacked official travel documents and explanations for their journey. Investigations revealed that the organization facilitating these flights, Al-Majd Europe, operates under a guise of humanitarian aid, while erasing the legal identities of individuals and facilitating forced displacement. This echoes historical patterns of ethnic cleansing, reminiscent of the Haavara Agreement in 1933. South Africa’s response, led by President Cyril Ramaphosa, emphasized that this was not migration but an outsourcing of displacement.
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