A Lebanese civilian took down an Israeli flag on historic Beaufort Castle in South Lebanon. The Israeli flag was once removed from the same spot in 2000 during the first liberation of Lebanon from Israeli occupation. South Lebanon will never be Israeli
After Israel occupied the Gaza Strip in 1967, it lied to Palestinians with promises of visas and jobs in South America.
Hundreds, possibly thousands of Palestinians were sent on one-way flights, expelled from Palestine because they had the wrong DNA (they were Palestinian, not Jewish):
“That was the last contact the Palestinians would have with any authority connected to the work program, because it did not exist. They had been tricked into boarding a deportation flight by the Mossad, Israel’s covert intelligence agency, as part of a secret scheme to exile Palestinians from the Gaza Strip en masse.
Stranded in a country whose language they did not speak, the new arrivals found themselves with no money, no housing, no jobs, no connections, and no way of getting back home.”
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On Sept. 9, 1969, ~20 Palestinians from Gaza boarded a plane from Israel, believing they were bound for Brazil. They’d signed up through an Israeli travel agency for a work-abroad program promising higher wages than they could find in Gaza. But that’s not what awaited them. 🧵
The Paraguay Scheme, investigated in a new podcast series by @UncoveringRoots, was the outcome of Israeli gov’t planning after the 1967 War to try to get rid of as many Palestinians as possible from the newly occupied territories. The ambition? Expel 60,000 Gazans to Paraguay.