RegendansThe Paraguay Scheme: Israel’s secret plan to deport Gazans in the ‘70s
A new podcast series lifts the veil on the Mossad’s failed attempt to expel 60,000 Palestinians soon after occupying the Gaza Strip. Almost six decades later, Israel’s methods and objectives remain eerily similar.
On Sept. 9, 1969, around 20 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip boarded a plane at an airport in central Israel, believing they were bound for Brazil. They had signed up through an Israeli travel agency for a work-abroad program, with the promise of higher wages than they could find in Gaza, which Israel had occupied two years earlier. Those with families were assured that their wives and children would be able to join them in Brazil soon after. But that is not what transpired.
When the flight touched down in São Paulo, armed guards escorted the men onto another, smaller plane that brought them to Asunción, the capital of Paraguay — a country many of them had never even heard of, and which was then under the dictatorship of Alfredo Stroessner. There, they were greeted by armed police officers and driven to a hotel for the night.
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