Brief: Palestinians sent to South Africa under mysterious conditions
The Take
Al Jazeera
4.7 • 748 Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
This week: 39 days into a ceasefire, Israel has killed at least 260 Palestinians in Gaza. Palestinians from Gaza were sent to South Africa under unclear circumstances. Exchanges of remains continued between Hamas and Israel. Israel has killed more than 69,192 Palestinians in Gaza since October 7th, 2023.
In this episode:
- Bernard Smith, (@JazeeraBernard) Al Jazeera Correspondent
- Nour Odeh, (@nour_odeh) Al Jazeera Correspondent
- Hind Khoudary (@Hind_Gaza) Al Jazeera Correspondent
Episode credits:
This episode was produced and mixed by Marthe van der Wolf. Our sound designer is Alex Roldan. Our lead of audience development and engagement is Andrew Greiner and Munera AlDosari is our engagement producer. Alexandra Locke is The Take’s executive producer. Ney Alvarez is Al Jazeera's head of audio.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm David Enders, and this is the take. |
| 0:04.8 | As Israel's war on Gaza continues, we're coming to you on Sundays with a weekly roundup. |
| 0:11.0 | This week, 39 days into a ceasefire, Israel has killed at least 260 Palestinians in Gaza. |
| 0:20.0 | Palestinians from Gaza. |
| 0:25.3 | Palestinians from Gaza were sent to South Africa under unclear circumstances. |
| 0:29.6 | Exchanges of remains continued between Hamas and Israel. |
| 0:32.8 | Today is Sunday, November 16. |
| 0:44.3 | Israel has killed more than 69,192 Palestinians in Gaza since October 7, 2023. On Thursday, South African authorities allowed more than 150 Palestinians to disembark from a plane |
| 0:50.5 | after they had initially been kept on board due to a lack of exit stamps in their |
| 0:54.7 | passports. The flight has raised a number of questions, including what links Israel has to |
| 1:00.8 | Al-Majid Europe, the group that appears to have arranged it. Here's Al Jazeera's Bernard |
| 1:05.7 | Smith in Doha. Al-Majira has been demanding payments of thousands of dollars, but there's murky information |
| 1:12.4 | on its origins and who is behind it. |
| 1:15.9 | The group has been moving Palestinians out of Gaza using unofficial channels facilitated by the |
| 1:21.0 | Israeli military. |
| 1:22.6 | Most recently, 153 Palestinians landed in South Africa. |
| 1:27.4 | Officials in Johannesburg are investigating how they got there without proper documentation |
| 1:31.8 | or coordination with local authorities. |
| 1:35.1 | The Palestinians on board had to pay between $1,500 to $5,000 to leave Gaza. |
| 1:41.7 | Those who took part in the scheme told Al Jazeera they were only allowed to bring |
| 1:45.3 | their phones, some money and a backpack. Our match Europe claims to have been founded in 2010, |
| 1:51.7 | but its website was only registered this year. It shows AI-generated executives, has no full |
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