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Israel cancels plan to deport migrants

April 02, 2018 21:29·
Israel says African migrants to be resettled in Canada, Europe

Israel says African migrants to be resettled in Canada, Europe

Israel and the United Nations reached a deal on Monday to send some 16,000 African asylum seekers to Western counties, nixing a controversial deportation plan.

UNHCR Representative in Canada, Jean-Nicolas Beuze, told CTV News that western countries "like Canada", will be among those bringing in these asylum-seekers.

Netanyahu's office said the "unprecedented understandings" would be implemented in three stages over five years, with much of those remaining in Israel integrated and granted official status.

Western nations will host thousands of asylum seekers now residing in Israel under a new deal that has just been reached with the UN Refugee Agency.

There are now some 42,000 African migrants in Israel, and more than 1,400 asylum seekers being held in two detention centers, including the notorious Holot facility in Negev desert.

Human rights activists in Israel and major US Jewish organizations had long urged the Israeli government not to go ahead with its plan to force the migrants to choose between jail and deportation.

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Israel's original plan to deport the migrants to Africa has effectively been nullified, according to Israeli media reports.

Israel originally planned to deport asylum seekers that refused to voluntarily leave the country to several African states. Israel uses the term "infiltrators" to describe people who did not enter the country through an official border crossing.

In its Monday statement, Netanyahu's office noted legal constraints and political difficulties with the proposed third-country destinations for the migrants as factors in its move toward a compromise.

Some migrants lived for years in Israel and work in low-paying jobs that many Israelis shun. It said the new framework will include a development and rehabilitation plan for southern Tel Aviv.

Protests also appear to have played a part. Those who will leave Israel are likely to mostly be single men from Eritrea - where the regime is one of the world's most oppressive and men are forced into a military service with slavery-like conditions.

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