Date: Friday, 04 May 2018
With the collapse of Israel’s mass deportation plan, tens of thousands of African asylum seekers now face an uncertain future.
Tel Aviv is looking to resume negotiations with the UN refugee agency to resettle the roughly 38,000 asylum seekers living in the country, the majority of whom fled Eritrea and Sudan, Israel’s Channel 10 News has reported.
According to the initial agreement, Israel pledged to end the forced deportation of asylum seekers allowing 16,000 of them to stay in Israel with and as many more to be resettled in Western countries.
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Last week Israel acknowledged the failure of its refugee relocation plan and its inability to forcibly deport the asylum seekers.
It also said it would stop all pre-deportation hearings for asylum seekers.
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