"Hours earlier, they had been sitting with their wrists and ankles shackled on the plush leather seats of a private jet owned by the Florida property tycoon Gil Dezer, a longtime business partner of Donald Trump. Dezer is also a Trump donor, friend of Donald Trump Jr and member of the Miami branch of Friends of the Israel Defense Forces."
"His sleek Gulfstream jet which he has called my little rocket ship was used to transport the men from an airport near a notorious removal centre in Arizona to Tel Aviv. The jet made three refuelling stops en route: in New Jersey, Ireland and Bulgaria. A Guardian investigation has established the flight was part of a secretive and politically sensitive US government operation to deport Palestinians arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to the Israeli-occupied West Bank."
On 21 January Israeli authorities left eight Palestinian men at a West Bank checkpoint, disoriented, cold, wearing prison-issued tracksuits and carrying belongings in plastic bags. Hours earlier the men had been shackled and seated on a private Gulfstream jet owned by Florida property tycoon Gil Dezer, a longtime business partner and donor connected to Donald Trump and linked to the Miami branch of Friends of the Israel Defense Forces. The jet flew from an airport near a removal centre in Arizona to Tel Aviv, with refuelling stops in New Jersey, Ireland and Bulgaria. The flight formed part of a US government operation to deport Palestinians arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to the Israeli-occupied West Bank. One deportee, Maher Awad, age 24, had lived in the United States for nearly a decade and had a girlfriend and newborn son in Michigan.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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