A complex and organized network stands behind operations to transfer hundreds of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to third countries

A journalistic report revealed a complex and organized network behind operations to transfer hundreds of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to third countries such as South Africa, Malaysia, Indonesia, and primarily involving the Majd Company and the newly established Israeli Voluntary Migration Office.

The report stated that a group of about 100 Palestinians from Gaza left Israel on the evening of Wednesday, November 12, 2025, having left Gaza early in the morning of Wednesday, and after undergoing Israeli security checks at the Kerem Shalom crossing, they were transported by buses to Ramon Airport near Eilat, where they boarded a chartered flight to Nairobi in Kenya, and from there transferred to another chartered plane that landed in Johannesburg on Thursday morning.

However, the Gazans were shocked that the South African government refuses to accept them and wants to return them to Gaza, and according to sources at the airport who were waiting for the group, they said they were informed that South African authorities refuse to allow the passengers to disembark, and that they are not injured or sick and do not hold dual citizenship.

The newspaper added that this is the second group of Gazans traveling to South Africa in the past two weeks, noting that the previous group followed the same route and entered Johannesburg without any problem.

The Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) stated that the departure of Gazans is usually coordinated directly between Israeli authorities and the receiving countries in the case of dual citizens or students with study visas, or through the World Health Organization, which oversees the evacuation of the injured and sick to host countries.

The newspaper concluded that before reaching a ceasefire in Gaza, a security source said that after the announcement by US President Donald Trump of a plan to transfer Gaza residents out of the sector, the Israeli government decided to ease restrictions on Palestinians wishing to leave, and among the measures is significantly easing security standards. According to the source, at least 95% of exit requests are now approved, compared to a much lower rate before the government decision.

Israel currently allows Gaza residents to leave through two main routes: transferring them to Ramon Airport if the receiving country sends a plane to pick them up, or through the Allenby Bridge crossing to Jordan. So far, about 7,000 Palestinians have left Gaza through the Kerem Shalom crossing, either towards Jordan or to travel abroad via Ramon Airport, while about 30,000 others have left to Egypt through the Rafah crossing.

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The Voluntary Migration Office in Israel: The official cover for emptying Gaza of its population

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Kobi Blitzstein and the Israeli right: The political dimension of the plan to empty Gaza

Aviation data documents the flights

According to information obtained by Haaretz newspaper, the latest flight that took place in November 2025 left Gaza early in the morning of Wednesday.

From the Kerem Shalom crossing, they were transported by buses to Ramon Airport near Eilat, where they boarded a chartered flight to Nairobi in Kenya. There, they transferred to another chartered plane that landed in Johannesburg on Thursday morning.

By reviewing the records of planes that left Eilat towards Kenya, it was found that there was a plane belonging to the FLYYO company, a Romanian commercial airline company led by CEO Ziv Maybridge, who is Israeli.

The company began its operations in Israel in February of this year, which raises suspicions about the company's dealings with Israel, and after only one month, the Israeli Migration Office announced the start of transferring Gazans in the same month to countries in Africa and Asia.

By searching the company's aircraft records, it was found that one of them bears the registration number YR-ADD, and by reviewing its records, it had no flights from Israel to Africa except this flight on November 12.

This plane left Ramon Airport near Eilat on Wednesday, November 12, at 17:00 GMT (7:00 PM Israel time), and arrived in the Kenyan capital Nairobi at 21:59 GMT (11:59 PM Israel time).

Flight path from Eilat to Nairobi (Al Jazeera)

Then we moved to track the plane that transported the passengers from Nairobi to South Africa, and by reviewing Johannesburg airport records, we found only one plane that landed in the morning at the airport coming from Nairobi on Thursday, November 13, 2025.

It turned out that the plane belongs to the South African company Global Aviation, with registration number ZS-GAC, and it is a commercial transport plane that usually operates on the passenger line between South Africa and Kenya, and the plane took off at 02:07 GMT — that is, about 5 hours after the arrival of the flight believed to have carried the Gazans — and arrived in Johannesburg at 06:19 GMT.

Flight path from Nairobi to South Africa (Al Jazeera)

Not the first time

And this was not the first time it is believed to have transported Gazans from Gaza, as according to reports, the first flights to transport Gazans were on March 19, 2025, when 70 Gazans holding foreign nationalities or with family ties abroad left Ramon Airport in southern Israel on a Romanian military plane heading to Europe, and Israeli authorities said they assisted in the evacuation operation as part of the migration policy they adopt.

And we actually found a Romanian military plane that left Ramon Airport heading to Romania on March 19, 2025, with registration number 6166 of the C130 model.

This flight was repeated on September 17, 2025, when a Romanian military plane with number 9143 of the C130 model also moved from Ramon Airport to Romania, and on the same day, several Israeli sources reported that 550 people left Gaza to various destinations (including Romania), where the Coordination Office (COGAT) said that most of those who left Gaza that day were Palestinian patients and their caregivers.

Other flights

Haaretz said that a group of Gaza residents, consisting of 57 people, left the sector on May 27, 2025, and on the night before their departure, dozens of residents received a message via the “WhatsApp” app containing a specific address in the sector to go to, and from there, they headed by buses to the “Kerem Shalom” crossing.

The bus departed after Israeli inspection to Ramon Airport, where the group boarded a chartered plane from the Romanian company “Flylili”, which headed to Budapest, and from there the travelers continued their journey to Indonesia and Malaysia.

By reviewing Flylili company flights, we found that it had a flight from Eilat to Budapest in Hungary on May 27, 2025, with number FL7000, which was not recorded on any similar flight, unlike the repeated second plane flights.