“…Another arm of this story operated from inside the occupation bureaucracy itself. Shlomo Gazit, the first coordinator of government activities in the Occupied Territories, helped design what Israel later marketed as an enlightened occupation, an administrative order that promised smoother daily management while suffocating Palestinian political life. If Sereni handled external routes of removal, Gazit helped build the bureaucracy that treated Palestinian existence as something to be administered, contained, and, when useful, thinned. His own retrospective remarks make clear that the idea of encouraging Palestinians to leave was not invented by today’s far right but was already embedded in the occupation’s historical vocabulary.
That is what gives the story its force in the present. The continuity does not rest on slogans or conspiracy but on a documented structural logic linking travel intermediaries, security agencies, state offices, and euphemistic language about voluntary emigration. Reporting has shown how Al Majd Europe, a firm linked by investigations to Israeli networks, operated flights out of Gaza under authorisation from Israel’s Voluntary Emigration Bureau and with ties to the far-right group Ad Kan. An earlier Al Jazeera report on the shadowy organisation that flew 153 Palestinians from Gaza to South Africa had already exposed the human face of that pipeline. The branding is cleaner now, and the language is more polished, but the underlying idea is the same. Palestinians are to be battered by war, pushed by despair, processed by intermediaries, and scattered far from a land Israel still wants without its people.
Ada Sereni died in Israel on November 24, 1997, but the system she served did not die with her. Gaza still carries the weight of that world, one in which Palestinian suffering is converted into paperwork, routes, tickets, fees, incentives, and euphemisms. The indictment is straightforward. This was not migration, not rescue, not humanitarian relocation, but a human trafficking architecture built in the service of demographic cleansing, and its updated forms are still with us…”