El Al Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/el-al/ The low down on African affairs Tue, 23 Jan 2018 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 El Al Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/el-al/ 32 32 Israeli pilots refuse to fly deportees https://jjcornish.com/2018/01/israeli-pilots-refuse-fly-deportees/ Tue, 23 Jan 2018 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2018/01/israeli-pilots-refuse-fly-deportees/ Israeli pilots have refused to fly asylum seekers deported by the Tel Aviv Government to African countries. Their action follows Germn pilots last year refusing to take deportees to Afghanistan and countries they deem unsafe. The El Al pilots made their feelings known on their FaceBook sites. Their action is largely symbolic. The Israeli Government […]

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]]> Israeli pilots have refused to fly asylum seekers deported by the Tel Aviv Government to African countries.

Their action follows Germn pilots last year refusing to take deportees to Afghanistan and countries they deem unsafe.

The El Al pilots made their feelings known on their FaceBook sites.

Their action is largely symbolic.

The Israeli Government does not use the national carrier to move deportees.

In terms of legislation passed to expel thousands of them, they are taken to Rwanda and Uganda which have been paid to accept them.

They are flown on other carriers via Jordan or Ethiopia.

The Israeli NGO Zimzim Community Action is pressing  pilots to follow the example of German fliers who refused 222 flights last year carrying deportees out of Europe.

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