More than 1,000 illegal African migrants have been camping out near the border with Egypt to protest their treatment in Israel. The migrants walked out of Israel’s Holot detention center on Friday, and attempted to cross into Egypt, according to reports. The Israel Defense Forces prevented them from crossing the border. The migrants, mostly from…
African asylum-seekers protest outside Israel’s Holot detention center in the Negev, February 2014 / Getty Images Prime Minister Netanyahu’s chief of staff, Harel Locker, has asked the state’s mismanagement watchdog to bury an upcoming report on the treatment of African migrants and asylum seekers, on grounds that publication would harm Israel’s international relations and national…
Thousands of African migrants in Israel, who are seeking asylum in the Jewish State, protested against the government for ignoring their asylum requests and placing then in detention facilities. The African migrants, from Sudan and Eritrea, marched through Tel Aviv on Sunday, and held a protest at Rabin Square in central Tel Aviv. Another 300…
More than 100 African migrants have abandoned an “open” Israeli detention centre to try to march on Jerusalem in protest at a law allowing authorities to keep them in custody indefinitely, activists said on Monday. Israel views most of the more than 50,000 Sudanese and Eritrean migrants who have crossed its border on foot from…
Egyptian Bedouin smugglers are reportedly killing African migrants who are attempting to infiltrate into Israel for their organs. More precisely, the Bedouins are drugging migrants who cannot pay their high smuggling fees, opening them up, harvesting their organs, and then leaving them to die in the Sinai. According to The Jerusalem Post, the Al-Arish-based New…
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