Israeli authorities on Monday [June 11] rounded up dozens of African immigrants slated for deportation, most of them from
South Sudan, as the government weighs tough penalties against Israelis who help illegal aliens.
The Population and Migration Authority said in a statement that
officers arrested 45 migrants from South Sudan, along with three
Nigerians, two Ghanaians, two Chinese, one from Ivory Coast, one from the Philippines and one whose nationality is being checked.
Israeli public radio said that in at least two cases, during early-morning swoops in the Red Sea town of Eilat, women with young children were picked up as they walked on the streets and were driven away.
Journalist and rights activist Toni Lissi told army radio that suspects in the town were picked up on the street, in banks, at their places of work and in in door-to-door searches.
"The people arrested were taken on buses to detention centers. Their mobile phones were confiscated," she said.
''Other immigrants are hiding in their homess, not daring to go out until things calm down,'' she said..
An Israeli court on Thursday ruled that the lives of an estimated
1500 migrants from South Sudan are no longer at risk in their homeland,
clearing the way for their mass expulsion.
Israeli daily Haaretz said that a government committee on legislation
had approved submission of draft bills which would raise the maximum
penalty for Israelis who employed, housed or transported around the
country illegal immigrants to five years in prison from two at present.
The bill is expected to go to parliament for a preliminary reading this week.
The interior ministry says that approximately 60,000 African
immigrants have entered Israel illegally, including those from South
Sudan, with which Israel has friendly relations.
In the photo above, AFP captures a naked African female migrant
described as a prostitute in a series of raids by Israel’s immigration
police aimed at rounding up and deporting illegal African immigrants.
The scene was recorded on Tuesday [June 12] near Levinsky Park, in the
Mediterranean city of Tel Aviv, where thousands of migrants reside. The
question urgently begging for an answer is why the woman was not allowed
to put on clothes before her arrest.
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Never beliv dat one day will come when Israel will pay back like this!!!!!!!!
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