Eritreans and Sudanese

Eritreans arrested in Tel Aviv knife brawl, one asylum seeker killed

Fifteen asylum seekers were arrested by police for involved in a suspect knife brawl in which 10 Eritreans were injured.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Police guard while Eritrean asylum seekers who oppose the regime in Eritrea protest outside a conference of regime supporters in south Tel Aviv, September 2, 2023
USUMAIN BARAKA and friends from his high school in Yemin Orde.

'Nobody wants to be a refugee': Israel's asylum seekers speak out

In light of a new governmental plan to encourage asylum seekers to leave Israel, we speak to those affected, and those assisting them.

|ByESTHER ROTLEWICZ
SOME OF THE thousands of asylum seekers, mainly from Sudan and Eritrea, who are living in Tel Aviv.

Refugee Day 2023: Global trends and the situation in Israel

According to the Population and Immigration Authority, there are currently about 25,500 asylum seekers living in Israel, mainly from Eritrea and Sudan.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A man walks while smoke rises above buildings after aerial bombardment, during clashes between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and the army in Khartoum North, Sudan, May 1, 2023.

Sudan war hits two-month mark as peace efforts hit hurdles

Fighting between the army and paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has displaced 2.2 million people and killed at least 1,000, an underestimate according to medics.

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State delays migrant deportation in possible softening of position

The designated deportation day was pushed back from April 1 to April 9.

MARCH 26, 2018ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
African migrants take part in a protest against Israel's detention policy toward them

Israel AIDS Task Force demands asylum seekers with HIV not be deported

The Health Ministry is currently treating 184 Eritrean and Sudanese migrants for HIV.

FEBRUARY 21, 2018ByDANIEL K. EISENBUD
Eritrean migrants in Tel Aviv.

The deportation of Eritreans is not in Israel’s national interest

The Eritreans/Tigrayans are proud people, who have survived for the past 3,000 years, kept our Orit/Torah religion and culture, language and way of life.

FEBRUARY 14, 2018ByHABTOM MEHARI
AN ASYLUM seeker from Eritrea works on his laptop at his home in south Tel Aviv in 2017.

Amnesty blasts Israel’s asylum-seeker system, demands halt to deportations

According to Amnesty International, the vast majority of Eritrean and Sudanese nationals identified themselves as refugees to the human rights organization.

FEBRUARY 13, 2018ByDANIEL K. EISENBUD
Asylum seekers wait in line yesterday at the Population, Immigration and Border Authority office in Bnei Brak

Thousands of African migrants protest deportation at Rwandan embassy in Israel

"Don't sell me to Rwanda."

FEBRUARY 7, 2018ByDANIEL K. EISENBUD
African migrants painted in white hold signs during a protest against the Israeli government's plan to deport part of their community, in front of the Rwandan embassy in Herzliya, Israel

Interior Ministry: Jewish morality is to expel infiltrators

"This is going to be a shameful, ugly move that will signify that we are a society and country where human rights do not exist," warns MK Eyal Ben-Reuven.

JANUARY 29, 2018ByDANIEL K. EISENBUD
AN AFRICAN migrant walks with his luggage after being released from Holot detention center in the Negev in 2015.