Israel closes desert detention center in migrant expulsion plan

Aryeh Deri

The children marched alongside asylum seekers and showed their support to keep them in Israel.

As the migrants could face danger or imprisonment if returned to their homelands, Israel is offering to relocate them to an unnamed African country, which deportees and aid workers say is Rwanda or Uganda.

A lot of them arrived in Israel - via Egypt - during the period from 2006 to 2013 before a security fence was erected along the border between Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.

Human rights activists in Israel and major U.S. Jewish organizations have urged the Israeli government not to go ahead with the plan to force the migrants to choose between jail and deportation.

Tens of thousands of illegal immigrants crossed into Israel over the past decade via the southern border with Egypt.

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According to figures from Israel's Immigration and Absorption Authority, some 55,000 African migrants and asylum-seekers now reside in the country, roughly 90 per cent of who hail from either Sudan or Eritrea.

Since Netanyahu announced the deportation plan, some Holot inmates have been transferred to the nearby Saharonim prison.

On Thursday, Israel's High Court released a temporary ruling for the state, ordering it to stop the expulsion of asylum seekers from Israel until it submits a response to a petition made to the court against the expulsion. Israeli officials say that no one they classify as a refugee or asylum seeker will be deported, though the process of granting asylum has been criticized as extremely slow and biased against claims.

Israel's Cabinet in January approved a plan and the budget to deport thousands of migrants from Sudan and Eritrea.

Religious and conservative politicians have portrayed the presence of Muslim and Christian Africans as a threat to Israel's Jewish character.

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