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17-11-2025
GAZA STRIP: The Palestinian Foreign Ministry thanked South Africa for allowing more than 150 Gaza residents into the country, after they initially faced entry issues due to missing documents and interview requirements.
South Africa on Thursday granted a 90-day visa exemption for 153 Palestinians who arrived from Kenya to seek asylum in the country, although they were initially denied entry due to not passing the required interviews and lacking customary departure stamps in their passports.
“We express our appreciation and respect for the sovereign decision to grant entry visas to a number of our people from the Gaza Strip who arrived at South Africa’s airport from Israel’s Ramon Airport via the Kenyan capital Nairobi, despite their arrival without any prior notification or coordination with the country’s authorities,” the Palestinian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Friday night.
The ministry warned that companies and entities that deceive Palestinians and incite them to relocate or migrate, or those involved in human trafficking and exploiting dire humanitarian conditions, “will bear the legal consequences of their unlawful practices and will be subject to prosecution and accountability.”
Palestine had instructed its embassy in South Africa to coordinate closely with the relevant authorities “to address the situation resulting from this lapse and contain its repercussions in a way that preserves the dignity and humanity of the Palestinian citizens and helps ease their suffering after two years of the Israeli genocide.”
The ministry stressed that human trafficking constitutes “a crime under international and national law that will not be tolerated.”
It called on Palestinian families, especially those in the Gaza Strip, to be cautious against human trafficking networks and any unofficial and unregistered entities for their safety.
South Africa, a steadfast supporter of Palestinian rights, filed a case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague on Dec. 29, 2023, accusing Israel, which has bombed Gaza since October 2023, of failing to uphold its commitments under the 1948 Genocide Convention.
More than 69,000 Palestinians have been killed and over 170,700 others injured in a deadly Israeli war on Gaza since October 2023.
Details are slowly emerging of a controversial Gaza-South Africa transit scheme run by a nonprofit, through which activists say Israel is encouraging the displacement of Palestinians out of Gaza by helping them settle in other countries.
Displaced Palestinians are reeling after heavy rains flooded their tents in makeshift displacement camps in Gaza City, as the United Nations warns that Israeli restrictions on aid have left hundreds of thousands of families without adequate shelter.
The United States has called on the UN Security Council to officially back its draft resolution aimed at bolstering President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan, warning that Palestinians could suffer “grave consequences” if it does not.
Israel’s war on Gaza has killed at least 69,187 Palestinians and wounded 170,703 since October 2023. A total of 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks, and about 200 were taken captive.
This shady organization has been working for some time now, at least since May, when the first flight was organized by it, as far as we can tell.
Now, who stands behind this organization? It seems that finding the answer to that is more like entering a rabbit hole. This is a very shady organization. It doesn’t have a headquarters; the names on its website are first names only; some of the images are generated by AI but what we do know is that in order for this service to actually materialize, it requires top coordination with the Israeli army. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
