With the increase in detention and as much as 300 Africans detained in the last three weeks after the detention law was implemented by the Israeli Parliament, Africans have been targets of police. However, on Sunday about 10,000 African migrants protested the detention law allowing Israel to detain people without proper documentation. Many of the demonstrators held banners demanding the release
of fellow migrants who were jailed for being in the country illegally.
Over 60,000 migrants have crossed into Israel since 2006
across an Egypt border, mostly from Eritrea and Sudan. Many live in poor areas
of Tel Aviv and are seeking asylum in the country. Israeli authorities see
these African migrants as threat to their national security and social fabric.
Migrants who are arrested are taken to a facility, in which
detainees can leave during the day but must report back by nightfall. Migrants
can be held there indefinitely pending voluntary repatriation, implementation
of deportation order or the resolution of their asylum requests. Many migrants who take refuge in Israel are fleeing from war
or persecution in their countries of origin, but very few are granted official
refugee status by the government. Many live on temporary visas and subsist on
menial jobs.
Hotline for Migrant Workers, an organisation that advocates
for Africans, accuses Israel of pressuring hundreds in its jails to accept
payouts and leave. More than left for Eritrea earlier this year, having won
release from prison.
The poverty in Africa is so much that our very best brains
have fled to search for greener pastures abroad. Unfortunately the governments
have not helped with their .unfriendly
policies and corruption.
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