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Helping African victims of human trafficking in Israel   In recent years, some 50,000 Africans have crossed into Israel from Sinai, creating a refugee problem that Israeli authorities have struggled to solve. Most are from war-torn Eritrea. Many Israelis consider them “infiltrators” just looking for jobs and want them deported. But to hear the tragic […]

Migrant boat sinks off Sicily, at least 319 people drowned Siculiana : Italy | Oct 12, 2013 at 1:26 PM PDT By SRHS143 4 0 Views: 426 1 of 22 An African migrant and her son watch a memorial service for the deaths of hundreds of migrants in last week’s Lampedusa boat disaster, in Tel […]

Lampedusa migrant boat disaster: 35-year-old Tunisian who was the captain and suspected of starting the fatal fire on vessel that caused shipwreck is arrested by Italian Police. Media source: Migrant Boat caught fire near the Italian Island of Lampedusa Italian police have arrested a Tunisian man they believe is responsible for last week’s migrant disaster […]

  By Activestills[source http://972mag.com/asylum-seekers-hold-silent-march-on-streets-of-tel-aviv/84586/ |Published December 28, 2013   Photos by Activestills, text by Haggai Matar African refugees and Israeli activists protest Israel’s immigration policies, calling for the release of all refugees imprisoned under the Prevention of Infiltration Law, and the recognition of their rights as refugees, December 28, 2013. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org) Over 6,000 African […]

source  http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/12/19/after-fleeing-war-and-genocide-african-refugees-in-israel-march-for-freedom.html       By Matt Surrusco December 19th 201310:00 am followMore Stories by Matt Surrusco       While African asylum seekers marched toward Jerusalem, calling for their rights in Israel and freedom from detention without trials, armed fighting raged between rival factions of soldiers in South Sudan on Monday. U.N. diplomats said […]

By Ilan Lior | Dec. 22, 2013 | 9:03 PM | 6[source http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/.premium-1.564812 Holot detention center: South Tel Aviv residents don’t want detainees to return to their neighborhoods. Photo by Eliyahu Hershkovitz The Immigration and Population Authority announced Sunday that over the coming days it will start summoning African migrants in city centers to a […]

  By Activestills  source http://972mag.com/hundreds-of-african-asylum-seekers-protest-freedom-march-arrests-in-tel-aviv/84174/ |Published December 21, 2013   Photos: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org, Yotam Ronen/Activestills.org Text: Haggai Matar Approximately 2,000 African asylum seekers and Israeli activists marched from Levinsky Park in south Tel Aviv to Rothschild Boulevard Saturday night to protest the arrests that took place during two “freedom marches” earlier this week. They blocked […]

  By Haggai Matar  |Published December 24, 2013 video  In Israel’s most vibrant demonstration ever to take place on the refugee issue, and in two bold escapes from an ‘open prison,’ African asylum seekers are starting to present themselves as a political force to be reckoned with. Asylum seekers marching under a crown of classical […]

source http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/israels-immoral-refusal/2013/12/23/b4379542-6b0f-11e3-a5d0-6f31cd74f760_story.html African refugees staging a protest in Israel. EPA/Tali Mayer Published: December 24 It is hard not to see the irony in Israel’s refusal to provide a home to the many African migrants seeking refuge from famine and war [“Not their promised land,” front page, Dec. 21]. It was 74 years ago that the ship the St. […]

source http://www.irinnews.org/report/99388/israel-sends-migrants-to-new-open-detention-centres Photo: Shahar Shoam/IRIN Asylum seekers demonstrating in Jerusalem shortly before being arrested TEL AVIV, 25 December 2013 (IRIN) – Hundreds of African migrants and human rights activists marched through the streets of Tel Aviv on 21 December to protest the Israeli government’s policy of detaining irregular migrants, the majority of them asylum seekers […]