Leave or go behind bars: Israel tells refugees
The Israeli regime has further toughened its approach toward immigration, pressing African refugees to go back home or face indefinite imprisonment.
A report by The Washington Post on Thursday said Israeli officials were sending letters to the first group of some 45,000 Eritrean and Sudanese refugees, ordering them to leave Israel within 30 days for their home or an unnamed third country in Africa or choose indefinite incarceration at prison.
The Israeli regime’s strict policy includes building a fence along the Egyptian border, denying illegal migrants work permits and holding them in a detention center in the desert.
According to the report, Israel has spent more than USD 350 million to build a fence along its entire border with Egypt to block the entry of Africans, mostly from Sudan and Eritrea.
The Tel Aviv regime defends its tough crackdown on refugees as fair, saying the new policy is designed to help those who have been denied asylum or have not applied for asylum to go back home or to third countries.
About 2,000 Africans mainly from Eritrea and Sudan are held captive at Israeli detention facilities in the occupied Palestinian territories.
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