Some African asylum seekers being held in detention in Israel have
said they are being threatened with deportation to unsafe countries.
Written notices given to some Eritreans held in deportation camps said they will be deported to unnamed African countries, thought to be Uganda and Rwanda.
Al Jazeera's Nisreen El-Shamayleh reports from the Negev region in southern Israel, where deportation notices are being handed to inmates in the Holot detention centre.
[aljazeera.com]
16/4/14
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Written notices given to some Eritreans held in deportation camps said they will be deported to unnamed African countries, thought to be Uganda and Rwanda.
Al Jazeera's Nisreen El-Shamayleh reports from the Negev region in southern Israel, where deportation notices are being handed to inmates in the Holot detention centre.
[aljazeera.com]
16/4/14
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Israel to expel African asylum seekers to other countries
Africans face uncertain Israeli future after perilous migration...
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Israel sees migrant tragedy as validating policy of keeping them away...
ReplyDeleteIsrael said on Monday the drowning of hundreds of Africans off Libya's coast was tragic but validated its own policy of having buffered its land barriers with Africa to keep migrants away.
Yisrael Katz, transport minister in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's outgoing cabinet, called the deaths in the Mediterranean a "tragedy that shocks all humanity" which also showcases Europe's difficulties in handling the migrant flow.
"Look at how correct the (Israeli) government's policy was to build a fence along the border with Egypt to block the way to labour migrants from Africa from reaching Israel," Katz, added in a post written on his Facebook page...REUTERS.....channelnewsasia.com
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