November 14, 2025 - They didn’t know where to go. They had no contact numbers, no phone numbers,” said Sooliman. He added that the first group’s relatives informed his organization on Wednesday that a second group was scheduled to arrive the next day. “Nobody knew about that plane,” he said. “It seems… Israel is voluntarily removing people from Gaza — you know, this is ethnic cleansing at its best — and taking away their goods, their hygiene packs, their food, sending them onto chartered planes.” · Sooliman urged authorities to “investigate how people are coming on chartered planes without stamps. Israel did not stamp the passports.” As a result, he said, South African border control officers “couldn’t allow them to get off the plane, simply because they were following rules” by not letting passengers alight in the country without valid travel documents.

Branken said Palestinian refugees leaving Gaza with the help of the company did not know exactly where they were heading to. "Despite rumors they would be taken to Indonesia or Malaysia, they instead ended up in South Africa."

November 14, 2025 - South Africa has maintained strong support for the Palestinian cause throughout the war between Hamas and Israel in Gaza. Ramaphosa said the group "somehow mysteriously were put on a plane that passed by Nairobi" and flew to South Africa, reports ...

November 18, 2025 - Gazans said they paid $2,000 per seat to fly their families to South Africa on a trip arranged by a group offering a way out of the devastated enclave, in what South Africa said appeared to be part of a bid to displace Palestinians.

November 17, 2025 - Speaking a day after the flight arrived, South Africa's president said the Palestinians "somehow mysteriously were put on a plane that passed by Nairobi" and flew to South Africa, according to local online publication News24.

November 14, 2025 - It didn’t name who chartered the flight, but an Israeli military official, speaking anonymously to discuss confidential information, said an organization called Al-Majd arranged the transport of about 150 Palestinians from Gaza to South Africa.

November 17, 2025 - "The manner in which they left Gaza and were unknowingly transported to South Africa points to the deep involvement of the Israeli state, and Israel's violation of the rights of people desperate for respite from its genocidal atrocities in Gaza," ...

November 15, 2025 - “These are people from Gaza who somehow mysteriously were put on a plane that passed by Nairobi and came here,” Mr. Ramaphosa said. The Palestinian Embassy in South Africa said in a statement that the flight was arranged by “an unregistered ...

November 16, 2025 - A planeload of Palestinians from Gaza on a charter flight had arrived in South Africa under mysterious circumstances. Just seven days of accommodation had been booked for them, at AirBnBs and hotels around Johannesburg.

November 15, 2025 - Israeli authorities said on Saturday that the 153 Gazans flown to South Africa earlier this week had received entry clearance from a third state before take-off. A spokesperson for the Israeli military…

1 week ago - The plane carrying about 150 Palestinians from Gaza came as a surprise to everyone on the ground when it landed in South Africa in Nov. Since May, at least three flights filled with Gaza residents who'd signed up to leave the war-torn enclave ...

November 13, 2025 - Sooliman said Lamola took the ... the exit stamp to allow the Palestinians in. This is the second plane transporting Palestinians fleeing the genocide in Gaza to South Africa....

November 17, 2025 - There were no press advisories, no diplomatic escorts, no indication that anything unusual was about to unfold. But inside the aircraft were 153 Palestinians from Gaza—men, women, infants, teenagers,

November 16, 2025 - South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said there was an investigation to uncover how the Palestinians came to South Africa via a stopover in Nairobi, Kenya. “These are people from Gaza who somehow mysteriously were put on a plane that passed by Nairobi and came here...

December 2, 2025 - The timing of the second flight, a week before South Africa hosted the G20 Leaders’ Summit, suggests the latter. If indeed Israel is instrumentalising displaced Palestinians against South Africa, this should be viewed as part of its broader genocidal campaign in Gaza.

November 15, 2025 - Details about how the group left Gaza remain elusive but the Gift of the Givers Foundation, a local nonprofit working in disaster response, said it was the second plane carrying Palestinians to land in South Africa in the last two weeks.

November 25, 2025 - A spokesperson for the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), the Israeli security body managing movement in and out of Gaza, told JNS that the passengers had flown via Ramon Airport in southern Israel to South Africa, ...

November 19, 2025 - South African authorities are currently investigating the circumstances surrounding the secret arrival of a flight from Israel on Thursday, November 13. This flight carried 153 Palestinians who had managed to leave the Gaza Strip with the help of an enigmatic charity group....

November 17, 2025 - Muayad posted in June an image of himself boarding a FlyLili aircraft — the same that later flew the Palestinians to South Africa — with the caption: “I left the Gaza Strip — and I will not return.