Israel’s forced removal of tens of thousands of Palestinians from refugee camps in the occupied West Bank earlier this year amounts to war crimes and crimes against humanity, Human Rights Watch (HRW) has alleged.

Inconsistencies involving the company at the center of the saga have only added to the uncertainty over a plane that arrived in South Africa carrying more than 150 Palestinians.

Basheer, his wife and their two small children were among some 180 people bussed out of Gaza in late October by a group called Al-Majd Europe, which has for months organised the departure of Palestinians from the devastated enclave through Israel’s Ramon airport.

A human rights group says the "rate at which people are killed in Israeli custody" shows a loss of "all moral and professional restraint."

At least 98 Palestinians have died in Israeli custody since October 2023, and the true death toll is likely higher given that a large number of people detained in Gaza are missing, according to a new report from an Israel-based human rights group,

South Africa’s foreign minister says that a plane that arrived in the country last week with more than 150 Palestinians on board was part of a “broader agenda” to clear out Gaza and the West Bank through a network of chartered flights.

For Palestinians living in the West Bank the occupation is a source of continued anger that has not stopped them from hoping and working for a better future.

South Africa’s intelligence services are investigating who was behind a chartered plane that landed in Johannesburg with more than 150 Palestinians from Gaza who did not have proper travel documents and were held onboard on the tarmac for around 12 hours as a result.

Most of those on Al-Astal’s eight dunams — about 2 acres — of land were displaced from Rafah and Khan Younis in the south, or Beit Hanoun and Beit Lahia in the north. Some families live in tightly packed tents, while others surround the edge of the property in all directions. He knows each of them by name.