Israel Matzav

2,000 Gazans want to return to Libya

It turns out that there are 2,000 Libyans who have been trapped in Gaza for 'decades,' and with dictator Muammar Gadhafi possibly on his way out, they'd like to go home.

Ali Muhammad Ali Al-Farahani, 32, said that today, some 2,000 descendants of Libyan fighters were in Gaza, and prevented from returning to the North African country by the Libyan government.

He said his father arrived in the Gaza Strip in the 1940s to help Palestinian fighters defend their land, adding that his parents were never able to return to Libya and died in Gaza. [The only ones referred to as 'Palestinians' in those days were Jews, but that's neither here nor there. CiJ]

Al-Farahani said the Libyan regime stripped those who went to Gaza of their citizenship as they went without permission from the Libyan leadership.

He said he recently published an appeal in the Libyan newspaper Al-Watan, sent with the spokesman of a Libyan flotilla sent to Gaza. Libyan officials contacted him but said the country's leader Moammar Gadhafi forbade anyone to bring up the issue.

Rif'at Jamil Al-Ash'afi said his ancestors also trace back to Libya, from the city of Mesrata. There are now more than 150 descendants from the city living in the coastal enclave, he estimated.

Al-Ash'afi said said Gadhafi's son held Egyptians, Tunisians and Palestinians responsible for the unrest in the country, and was unlikely to allow the descendants of Libyans to return.

One can only wonder how many more 'Palestinian refugees' are actually mercenaries who came to the area to prevent Israel from being born and their descendants. I'd bet that there are lots of them. I'd also bet that Gaza is full of people that other Arab regimes wanted out of their countries (like Egypt, Sudan, the Gulf states and others).

Just another Arab lie....

Labels: Gaza, Libyan regime change, Palestinian refugees

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:15 PM