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| African Immigrants in Israel Protest near Egypt Border | |
| 2014-06-28 | |
| [AnNahar] Nearly 1,000 illegal African immigrants in Israel on Friday staged a march towards the southern border with Egypt to protest against living conditions in their internment camp, public radio reported. Israeli soldiers stopped the demonstrators, most from Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... and Sudan, nearly 300 meters (yards) from the border, it added. The protesters, who are allowed out during the day, said in a statement that their march was in protest against their "inhuman and unlimited" detention in the Holot camp. Holot houses some 2,300 immigrants.
The Israeli authorities require undocumented Democrats who have been in Israel for more than five years to live in Holot. One demonstrator said the authorities present it as an "open facility", but it was "actually a prison". Under legislation passed in December 2013, authorities can detain undocumented Democrats for up to a year without trial. In February, Haaretz newspaper reported that Israel had started flying undocumented Democrats to Uganda with the authorization of that country's authorities. The Israeli population and immigration office said that in late 2013 there were 53,646 African immigrants in Israel, 35,987 of whom were Eritrean, 13,249 Sudanese and the remainder from other countries. Israel's construction of an electric fence along its border with Egypt has reduced the number of immigrants arriving illegally through the Sinai Peninsula to almost none. Thousands of African immigrants rallied last year against the authorities' refusal to grant them refugee status. | |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #3 in late 2013 there were 53,646 African immigrants in Israel, 35,987 of whom were Eritrean, 13,249 Sudanese and the remainder from other countries. Only 1,000 were protesting, Besoeker. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2014-06-28 22:37 |
| #2 One might think 1000 Africans might find someplace safe to migrate to.... other than a tiny |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-06-28 08:00 |
| #1 Israel's construction of an electric fence along its border with Egypt has reduced the number of immigrants arriving illegally through the Sinai Peninsula to almost none. Why those clever juices. Who would have thought of such a thing? |
| Posted by: Shipman 2014-06-28 03:04 |