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Channel 2 interview of Gary, an Eritrean man, at the scene where his friend Habtom Zerhom was killed by a mob of Israelis after a terror attack.

Eritrean man’s ‘lynch’ highlights failings of the Israeli press

The Israeli media shares some responsibility for the hysteria on the streets and the phenomenon of ‘accidental’ attacks against Jews, Palestinians, and now Eritreans. By Hagar Shezaf Habtom Zerhom, an Eritrean asylum seeker, was shot by security forces and then lynched by Israelis in Beer Sheva’s bus station after being mistakenly identified as a terrorist…

By +972 Magazine October 20, 2015

African asylum seekers arrive at Israel’s Holot detention facility in the Negev desert, February 18, 2014. (Photo: Activestills.org) Israel’s High Court has twice struck down the law allowing the indefinite detention of asylum seekers.

Asylum seeker who left Israel: ‘I believed them when they said I could stay in Uganda’

The following is a redacted version of an affidavit that was attached to a petition filed by Israeli human rights NGOs and the Tel Aviv University Refugee Rights’ Clinic against the recently announced policy of indefinitely incarcerating Eritrean and Sudanese asylum-seekers who refuse to leave Israel for Rwanda or Uganda. Under a new policy announced on…

By +972 Magazine June 10, 2015

Eli Yishai visit detention camps for Asylum Seekers in the south (photo: Yotam Ronen / Activestills.org)

Interior minister exploits rape by Eritrean for anti-immigrant campaign

Prepare yourselves. Last May, when it was last announced that an Eritrean citizen raped an Israeli woman, Interior Minister Eli Yishai responded by placing thousands of asylum seekers, among them children, rape and torture victims and the elderly in administrative detention, all in accordance with Israel’s Prevention of Infiltration Law. In the wake of the…

By Laissez Passer January 3, 2013

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S. Tel Aviv residents protest against African asylum seekers

Approximately 50 south Tel Aviv residents protested last night against the presence of African asylum seekers in their neighborhoods. Protesters waved Israeli flags and held signs that read “I voted for Bibi and I got screwed,” “We want a solution here and now,” and “Bibi, you asked [for us] not to take the law into…

By Mya Guarnieri Jaradat July 25, 2012

African asylum seeker at Tel Aviv human rights march, December 2010 (photo: Lisa Goldman)

Tel Aviv refugee froze to death. ‘Go back to Africa, it’s warmer.’

An asylum seeker froze to death in a Tel Aviv park tonight. Blogger Inter Spem et Metum collated some of the comments left on the YNET report describing other asylum seekers freezing across the city. What was wrong with Egypt? Why did you come here? Here’s an idea for Abdul and Yusuf – seek asylum…

By Dimi Reider January 22, 2012