Company carrying Palestinians to South Africa does ‘disaster capitalism’

According to Antony Loewenstein, author of The Palestine Laboratory, a book about Israel’s arms and surveillance industry, a transit scheme carrying Palestinians to South Africa or other countries could have been operating weeks or months before being noticed.

Commenting on a mysterious flight carrying people from Gaza that transited through Kenya’s capital Nairobi and ended up in South Africa, Loewenstein told Al Jazeera from Indonesia’s capital Jakarta that there have been rumours about companies making such flights, which apparently “requires Israeli permission as well as other countries’ permissions”.

“South Africa was apparently the final destination, considering it is one of the most pro-Palestine countries on the planet,” he said.

The writer stressed there were “no names or associations” on the “incredibly strange” company website, which “almost looks like it was created by AI”, calling what it does “disaster capitalism”.

“This is the concept of people making money out of other people’s misery,” Loewenstein concluded.

Mystery deepens around shady organisation tied to Gaza-South Africa transfer of people

We know that this shady organisation has been working for some time now, at least since May, when the first flight was organised by it, as far as we can tell.

Now, who stands behind this organisation? It seems that finding the answer to that is more like entering a rabbit hole. This is a very shady organisation. 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 materialise, it requires top coordination with the Israeli army. There is just no other way around it. The movement of Palestinians in and out of Gaza has to be authorised by the Israeli army; otherwise, the bus transporting them would be bombed. That’s just the reality of it, and we’ve seen that time and again.

We know that even humanitarian organisations can’t move from south to north and backwards without informing the Israeli army, and travelling on the route that the Israeli army sanctions. So, we know that there is an Israeli connection getting there, corroborating it is still taking time, but this is an organisation that has been the subject of a lot of debate.

Within Palestine, people are warning against using their service because there is concern that those who leave through that route won’t be able to return home.

Organisation coordinating Palestinians’ exit from Gaza ‘full of smokescreens’

We know that at least as far back as May, this organisation started posting sponsored links on social media platforms, telling Palestinians who were enduring starvation, famine and bombardment that there is a way out of all of that.

This organisation is basically a lot of smokescreens. We are trying to investigate its location. On its website, Al-Majd Europe claims to be a German organisation, based in Sheikh Jarrah in occupied East Jerusalem. It doesn’t provide a specific location or address for its headquarters, but there is no office for Al-Majd Europe in the neighbourhood it claims to be based in. We know that. We have verified that for sure.

We’re also trying to verify how this organisation, which again claims to be German, based in Sheikh Jarrah, was able to coordinate the exit of families. To get them out of Gaza, coordination with the Israeli army is required. There is just no other way around it. So, the Israeli role in all of this is certain; we just don’t know to what extent.

The Palestinians fear that this is a silent transfer, that Israel is complicit in encouraging, in pushing Palestinians out, making their lives unbearable, making conditions in Gaza unliveable and then providing a backdoor through which they can leave Gaza and perhaps never return.

Palestinians flown to South Africa had third-country ‘approval’: Israel

The spokesman for Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), the Israeli Defence Ministry body that oversees civilian affairs in the occupied Palestinian territory, says a group of Palestinians who landed unexpectedly in South Africa were given entry authorisation for an unnamed third country.

Speaking to AFP news agency, spokesman Shimi Zuaretz said the group of 153 Palestinians left Gaza “after COGAT received approval from a third country to receive them”, without naming the country.

Gaza’s Civil Defence assisting flood victims near Khan Younis

The organisation says its crews are responding to dozens of tents in displaced persons’ camps in several areas of the al-Mawasi area near the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza.

A brief statement on Telegram said the tents were flooded following strong rainfall in the enclave.

Israeli army carries out three attacks across Gaza: Report

Citing local sources, the Wafa news agency has reported on three separate Israeli attacks in Gaza earlier today:

Testimonies from Rakevet prison likely to show ‘a glimpse of what is taking place’ there

Basil Farraj, an assistant professor in the department of philosophy and cultural studies at Birzeit University in the occupied West Bank’s Ramallah, says testimonies from Israel’s Rakevet prison reflect a wider pattern of abuse in Israeli jails.

The study by a group of lawyers, citing the testimonies in question, revealed that dozens of Palestinian and Lebanese nationals are detained in the Rakevet facility below the Nitzan prison in Ramla, which was closed in the 1980s after conditions were deemed inhumane.

Farraj said the testimonies are likely to show “just a glimpse of what is taking place” in the hidden prison.

“We anticipate that the conditions are even worse,” he said, adding that the Israeli government even turned regular, unhidden prisons and detention centres “into locations of violence and torture, in which more than 81 Palestinians have been killed”.

The academic stressed that the secret centre is a symptom of the broader Israeli phenomenon of treating Palestinians “in an extremely brutal way that denies and neglects all of their rights”.

More details emerge of Israel’s ‘brutal’ treatment of Palestinian detainees

Dozens of Palestinian prisoners are being held indefinitely in an underground Israeli detention facility, deprived of sunlight and subjected to extreme violence.

Lawyers for Palestinians held at Rakevet, an underground wing of the Ramla (Nitzan) prison complex in central Israel, say their clients have been assaulted, starved, and denied medical care despite serious injuries.

“When the prisoners arrive for the interview [with their lawyer], their faces show what they’ve endured,” lawyer Nadia Daqqa told Al Jazeera. “Particularly in this prison, prisoners are afraid to talk.”

Despite that, Daqqa and other lawyers have collected testimonials from prisoners held at Rakevet.

One detainee, referred to by the initials YH, had a broken jaw, shoulder and ribs yet received no medical treatment. Another, known as KHD, said Israeli prison guards punish the prisoners “by breaking their thumbs”.

Turkiye reiterates support for Palestine on 37th founding anniversary

Turkiye has congratulated the State of Palestine on the 37th anniversary of its founding, reiterating support for the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people.

The Foreign Ministry issued a message on the Turkish social media platform NSosyal, saying: “Happy 37th anniversary of the founding of the friendly and brotherly State of Palestine! As Turkiye, we will continue to defend the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people and support their just cause.”

“Our country’s goal remains the establishment of an independent, sovereign and territorially integrated State of Palestine within the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital, based on a two-state solution for lasting peace,” it added.

The State of Palestine was declared on November 15, 1988, by the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in Algiers, Algeria, during a meeting of the Palestinian National Council.

The declaration came amid efforts to gain international recognition and assert Palestinian sovereignty following decades of conflict and Israeli occupation. Since then, Palestine has been recognised by numerous countries worldwide, though it continues to seek full UN membership and broader international recognition.

Jordanian king, Pakistani premier vow ‘zero-tolerance’ for displacement of Palestinians from Gaza

Jordanian King Abdullah and Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif have vowed “zero-tolerance” for any displacement of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip.

Sharif hosted King Abdullah in Islamabad on a two-day state visit.

“On the issue of Palestine, both leaders acknowledged the unanimity of views and principled positions taken by Pakistan and Jordan regarding the post-war Gaza; zero-tolerance for any displacement of Palestinians from Gaza,” Sharif’s office said in a statement.

The two leaders agreed to enhance coordination among the eight Arab-Islamic countries that are working with the US on the Gaza ceasefire and peace plan, which includes a new governance structure and rebuilding of the enclave destroyed by Israel.

The two sides also discussed further deepening of bilateral relations as well as exploring avenues for enhanced cooperation in the economic, trade, investment, health, science and technology, education, as well as defence sectors.

Lebanon to file complaint to UN over Israeli wall beyond ‘Blue Line’

The National News Agency reports Lebanon plans to file a complaint with the United Nations Security Council over Israel’s construction of a concrete wall along its southern border that traverses the “Blue Line”, a UN-backed, unofficial ceasefire line between the two countries.

According to the news agency, Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun requested the complaint be issued along with recent UN reports confirming the Israeli wall has blocked off some 4,000sq metres (43,055sq feet) of territory to Lebanese people.

Israel killed more than 4,000 people, mostly civilians, in its recent war on Lebanon, and displaced more than a million people. It razed dozens of villages to the ground and invaded – and still refuses to withdraw from – at least five points on Lebanese territory.

Anti-government protesters rally across Israel

The Times of Israel reports that nationwide, anti-government rallies are occurring for another week in Israel, including in Tel Aviv and Haifa.

Many of the demonstrators are urging the government to launch a state inquiry into the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack, something Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has so far resisted.

The biggest rally is taking place in Tel Aviv, with activists heading from the Defence Ministry headquarters towards Habima Square, according to the news report.

_{A demonstration in support of establishing a state commission of inquiry into the Hamas-led October 7, 2023 attacks in Habima Square in Tel Aviv on Saturday}

Deeply unpopular Palestinian leader Abbas turns 90

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas turned 90 on Saturday, still holding power in tiny pockets of the occupied West Bank but marginalized and weakened by Israel.

The world’s second-oldest serving president – after Cameroon’s 92-year-old Paul Biya – Abbas has been in office for 20 years, and for nearly the entire time has failed to hold elections.  His weakness has left Palestinians leaderless, critics say, at a time when they face an existential crisis.

Abbas “has put his head in the sand and has taken no initiative”, said Khalil Shikaki, head of the People’s Company for Polls and Survey Research, a Palestinian pollster.

“His legitimacy was depleted long ago. He has become a liability to his own party and for the Palestinians as a whole.” An October poll by Shikaki’s organisation found 80 percent of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza want Abbas to resign.

For many Palestinians, the Palestinian Authority is a subcontractor of the occupation, suppressing opponents while Israel swallows up an increasing amount of the West Bank.

“It has chosen to put itself hand-in-hand with the Israeli occupation, even as [Israel] acts to make it more fragile and weaker,” said Abdaljawad Omar, an assistant professor of philosophy and cultural studies at the West Bank’s Bir Zeit University.

Even lower approval rating than Trump

Gaza's Shallow Graves: Rescue Teams Dig Up 50+ Bodies in Shallow Graves in Courtyard of Clinic

“Since the ceasefire began, we’ve been in the first stage, still looking for our children.”

Donning bright orange vests and wearing masks and gloves, Civil Defense teams set to work on Tuesday using nothing more than shovels, hoes, and their bare hands. The courtyard was surrounded by destroyed buildings with slabs of concrete hanging from twisted rebar and pancaked roofs. Some of the exhumed bodies were wrapped in white body bags buried just a few feet in the dirt. Other remains—bones and pieces of decomposed flesh mixed in with torn clothes—were removed individually from the earth and placed in small piles. One worker marked the body bags with the date of recovery—”11/11/2025”—and the words “unknown identity.”

“The Israeli military was close to this neighborhood and this location. The families couldn’t bury their loved ones and martyrs in official cemeteries, so they buried them in this health care clinic, which serves this neighborhood,” Abu Khalil, a member of Civil Defense, told Drop Site as he stood in the courtyard. The Sheikh Radwan clinic itself has been partially destroyed, with one side of the building smashed in. “Now, our teams are working to recover the bodies, so that they will later be transferred to official cemeteries. After that, this place and the clinic will be renovated to become a place serving local residents and the people of the area.”

The Epstein Network: a Window Into How Elite Politics Really Work

Rania Khalek and Eugene Puryear discuss the latest Trump-Epstein revelations, showing how Epstein wasn’t just a predator but a key node in elite networks spanning presidents, prime ministers, billionaires, and US, UK and Israeli intelligence agencies. They explain why this scandal exposes the criminality of the ruling class and the long history of overlap between organized crime, intelligence, and power in the US and UK. The media, they warn, risks reducing it all to salacious gossip instead of the systemic indictment it is.

Ben-Gvir, Smotrich press Netanyahu to rule out a Palestinian state

Two far-right Israeli ministers have urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to explicitly reject the possibility of a Palestinian state.

In a message on X addressed to the Israeli premier, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said Netanyahu should clarify his position.

“Formulate immediately an appropriate and decisive response that will make clear to the entire world: a Palestinian state will never arise on the lands of our homeland,” wrote Smotrich, who lives in an illegal Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank.

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir shared a similar message, saying his Jewish Power party would not be part of a government that allows a Palestinian state.

He instead called for “encouraging voluntary emigration” of Palestinians from Gaza as the “only real solution” for the war-ravaged enclave.

‘National security’: Ex-UN rapporteur Richard Falk interrogated in Canada

Montreal, Canada – A former United Nations special rapporteur who investigated Israeli abuses against Palestinians says he was interrogated by Canadian authorities on “national security” grounds as he travelled here to attend a Gaza-related event.

Richard Falk, an international law expert from the United States, told Al Jazeera he was questioned at Toronto Pearson international airport on Thursday alongside his wife, fellow legal scholar Hilal Elver.

“A security person came and said, ‘We’ve detained you both because we’re concerned that you pose a national security threat to Canada,'” Falk, 95, said in an interview from Ottawa, the Canadian capital. “It was my first experience of this sort – ever – in my life.”

Falk and Elver – both US citizens – travelled to Ottawa to take part in the Palestine Tribunal on Canadian Responsibility when they were held for questioning.

_{Richard Falk served as the UN's special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory from 2008 to 2014}

Canada is just as complicit as the UK, no surprise there as a former British colony, genociding the indiginous population.


https://www.commondreams.org/news/richard-falk-canada-gaza

Martin Shaw, a British sociologist and author of The New Age of Genocide, said the treatment of Falk and Elver should be seen as an “extraordinary development” for Canada, and not in a good way. For a nation that likes to think of itself as a “supporter of international justice,” said Shaw, “to arrest the veteran scholar and former UN rapporteur Richard Falk while he is attending a Gaza tribunal. Clearly, the international repression of the Palestinian cause knows no bounds.”

The event, according to the program notes on the website, was designed to “document the multiple ways that Canadian entities – including government bodies, corporations, universities, charities, media, and other cultural institutions–have enabled and continue to enable the settler colonization and genocide of Palestinians, and to articulate what justice and reparations would require.”

Richard Falk is Professor Emeritus of International Law at Princeton and a former UN Special Rapporteur for Palestinian human rights. He is 95 years old. Western governments will target anyone working to hold Israel accountable for genocide. https://t.co/18fQekVxwz

— Linda Mamoun (@mamoun_linda) November 14, 2025

Main events on November 15th

• Israeli attacks inside the Gaza ceasefire’s “yellow line” demarcation hit near the cities of Khan Younis in the south and Gaza City in the north as truce violations continue.
• Israel returned 15 more bodies of Palestinians detained in Gaza, bringing the total number of dead received since the October 10 ceasefire started to 330.
• Soldiers launched a series of incursions in the occupied West Bank, wounding at least two Palestinians and arresting 15 others.
• Israeli demonstrators take to the streets to urge the far-right government to launch a state inquiry into the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks – something Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has so far resisted.
• Lebanon plans to file a complaint with the UN Security Council over Israel’s construction of a wall along its southern border that traverses the UN-backed, unofficial ceasefire line between the two countries.

Montreal Police Assault Dimitri Lascaris When He Attempts to Attend a Speech by Mark Carney

On November 14, two Montreal police officers assaulted Dimitri Lascaris when he attempted to enter the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel, where Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney was giving a speech. This is by no means that first time that he's been assaulted by the cops in Montreal. These experiences have become a regular occurrence whenever he tries to attend speeches by Ministers in the Canadian government. This time, however, he managed to capture the assault on video.

As he explains in his report from outside the hotel, it is now obvious that Lascaris has been placed on a government blacklist. Although he's a lawyer in good standing and a card-carrying member of the press - facts about which Canada's government is undoubtedly aware - it’s clear that the Liberal government has instructed Montreal police and the RCMP to prevent Lascaris from entering any building where a Minister of the Canadian government is speaking - and to use force, if necessary, to exclude him.

Israel's Propaganda Campaign Is INSANE

Israel is investing millions into an online propaganda campaign to try to trick young people into having more favorable views of Israel.

"The Israeli government has signed contracts worth millions of dollars in recent months to rehabilitate Israel's standing in American public opinion, both online and offline. Amid a sharp drop in support from the conservative right, Israel has hired firms to conduct not just "hasbara [public diplomacy] campaigns" but also campaigns targeting millions of Christian churchgoers, bot networks to amplify pro-Israel messages online, and efforts to influence both search results and the responses given by popular AI services like ChatGPT."