Africa: Jerusalem House Firebombed As Israeli Government Stokes
Anti-Immigration Fervour
By Ruth Michaelson, 7 June 2012
Inside Story, with presenter Dareen Abughaida speaks to guests: Yigal
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- Israel Accused of Ill-Treating African Migrants
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Ramallah - Violence against African immigrants in Israel spiked once more as
an apartment housing 10 Eritrean asylum-seekers was firebombed on Monday.
At least four residents suffered burns and smoke inhalation when trying to
extinguish the blaze, in an attack the police are treating as arson due to
graffiti saying "leave the neighbourhood" which was daubed on the property.
The attack occurred the day after Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the "swift
deportation" of 25,000 immigrants from South Sudan, the Ivory Coast, Ghana
and Ethiopia classified as illegal.
A law also came into effect which permits the jailing of immigrants who
cannot be deported for up to three years in a detention centre, still under
construction, in the Negev desert.
Tel Aviv has seen weekly violent demonstrations purporting to be against
immigration and attacks on immigrants and their property have been witnessed
across Israel.
On Sunday, Member of the Knesset Aryeh Eldad attempted to diffuse reactions
to a statement he made during a tour of the site of a border fence being
erected along Israel's Egyptian border, the main port of entry for many
immigrants, that anyone seen attempting to breach the fence should be shot.
Out of the 1,500 requests for asylum registered with the Israeli government
between 2009 and 2011, two were accepted. It also has taken measures to
prevent companies from employing anyone classified as an illegal migrant.
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