Migrants concentration cmps in Tel Aviv
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Israel's interior minister said on Friday he hoped to soon start moving tens of thousands of illegal African migrants from Tel Aviv and elsewhere to a detention camp being built and a planned "tent city."
An Israeli court cleared the way on Thursday for the deportation of an estimated 1,500 South Sudanese, after ruling that their lives were no longer threatened in their homeland.
Interior Minister Eli Yishai told public radio 40,000 Sudanese and Eritreans were next in his sights.
"There are still about 15,000 from north Sudan and some 35,000 from Eritrea," he said. "I am not allowed to get them out at the moment."
He said he expected legal obstacles would be removed and that the government was also offering a grant to those prepared to leave voluntarily.
"They are close to being expelled either willingly or against their will," he said. "This is a number that threatens the Jewish identity."
As a first step, he said, illegals would be rounded up and moved to a detention centre being built in southern Israel at a projected cost of 250 million shekels ($6.7 million, 5.4 million euros).
"As soon as the facility is completed, which could be in a few months -- and alongside it we plan to put up a tent city with all the accepted conditions -- then we shall start moving migrants from south Tel Aviv, from (the Red Sea town of) Eilat ... wherever they are."
The rising number of Africans in Israel has hit the headlines in recent weeks, after a spike in racial tensions led to a riot in southern Tel Aviv, where tens of thousands of migrants live.
Interior ministry statistics show that approximately 60,000 African immigrants have entered Israel illegally, the vast majority of them from Sudan and Eritrea.
Some are refugees fleeing persecution in their home nations, but others are economic migrants.
Yishai said he estimated a further 6,000 may have sneaked across the border from Egypt undetected.
"I hope that in the coming months we shall be able to move all the infiltrators to detention facilities and allow Israeli citizens in south Tel Aviv and others to live in a proper way ... in quiet and security," he added.
Israel is building a giant, hi-tech security barrier along its 240-kilometre (150-mile) border with the Egyptian Sinai.
So far 170 kilometres have been erected and the project is due to be completed later this year.
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Brit: Can you tell us according to what International law Israel is sending the highly endangered refugees home? ....... It suits them....
They don't apply any international law in regards to the Palestinians....
Those Eritrean refuges will definitely face persecution which inevitable ‘d result in loosing lives as they rot in underground dungeons in Eritrea.
What happened to humanity!!!!
i have no sympathy for the state of Israel and its government or policies. However, I do agree with their stance in this instant..
Again historically speaking Jews were not there first in Palestine. According to Biblical mythology, some Iraqi Jews settled Palestine 3000 years ago for a short period of time. That doesn't mean Palestine should belong to every person of Jewish faith 3000 years later. No people in human history ever made such stupid claim.
Genetically speaking the Palestinians of today are the same descendants of the Christian/Jews population that had existed in the Levites for thousands of years who upon the Islamic conquest of these lands reverted to Islam and have remained as such till present times.
As for Palestinian Arabs, if you say they came from somewhere else, say the Arabian Peninsula for example, which is rather a very popular lie within pro-Zionism circles, then you have to prove it. Since historically there are no such records of any mass population transfer from and into Palestine under Muslim rule, or any mass genocide against native population of Palestine that were later replaced by immigrants from Arabian Peninsula, then Palestinian arabnized people are the rightful owners of Palestine. Which is also supported by genetic evidence.
mozaismyhero : Geographically speaking Israeli’s neighbours are Jordan , Syria , Lebanon and Egypt. And they all have taken in a large numbers of displaced Palestinian refugees from the occupied land of Palestine.
Lebanon, Jordan and Syria they have all taken in Iraqi refugees, who fled the unjust US sponsored war on Iraq.
So your comment (Israel acts just like its neighbours) Is void of any historical texture or truth.
I agree a great injustice has been done to the Palestinian people but in this region people tend to whitewash history and perpetrate the lie that these were always arab lands and arab people. Historical fact does not lie, it just is.
Back to topic, Israel acts just like its neighbours and does not claim like Europe or North America to take into account the claims of refugees. As they say here, these are our rules if you don't like it leave.
Moza i'm going reply to your post by quoting from one of Israels ex PM David Ben Gurion who said......
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"Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist. Not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. Nahlal arose in the place of Mahlul; Kibbutz Gvat in the place of Jibta; Kibbutz Sarid in the place of Huneifis; and Kefar Yehushua in the place of Tal al-Shuman. There is not a single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population
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"Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves ... politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves... The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country."
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-- "The country is there's because they inhabit it"--- That in itself says it all!
moza so we need to go back and settle the things instead of correcting the present?
Well MN it depends on who you mean by the original inhabitants of the area of Palestine/Israel. Orginally you are talking about the lands of Judea and Israel and it was only after the Roman genocide against the Jews that Emperor Hadrian renamed the land Syria Palestinia.
mozaismyhero: True said. Except the fact that the GCC did not force its existence on anybody.
Israel forces its existence on the original inhabitants of the land of Palestine.
Blue: Do you not read?
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Great atrocities are being committed against the Eritrean people back in their home country. According to human rights observers serious human rights violations by the Eritrean government is being done including mass murder ,arbitrary arrests, torture of prisoners of all types, appalling detention conditions, forced labor, forced army service, and severe restrictions on freedom of movement, expression, and worship.
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Those people are war refugees and by sending them back home the Israeli govt is declaring a death sentence on them.
turbohampster: but the posted article is not discussing the GCC status on refugees rights here. You can open another thread and discuss the GCC status on refugees, but this one is discussing Israel.
Every country has the right to expel illegal migrants.
Yeah its not good..
But the GCC hardly has a fantastic record on dealing with refugees
I guess they are taking lessons from the GCC. These guys have so much in common.
Refugees killed for their organs on Israel borders.
How ironic of the Israel govt!
Great atrocities are being committed aganist the Eritran people back in their home country. According to human rights observers serious human rights violations by the Eritrean government is being done including mass murder ,arbitrary arrests, torture of prisoners of all types, appalling detention conditions, forced labor, forced army service, and severe restrictions on freedom of movement, expression, and worship.