Around 135 busloads transported over 8000 refugee protesters mainly from Eritrea, Sudan and Ethiopia from South Tel Aviv and elsewhere to Jerusalem to hold demonstrations outside the Knesset, the Israeli parliament. Israel stepped up security along the route from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem with increased police presence as around 200 officers were present in Jerusalem to keep order as more busses continued to arrive to the capital from around the country during the day.
This might be the largest protest outside the Knesset in recent years, according to Israeli police. Representatives of the refugees were scheduled to meet with Members of the Knesset (MKs) during Wende
Capitaeritrea:-Mass protest by Israel’s African refugees against the government’s detention policies for asylum seekers, which began Sunday in Tel Aviv entered its fourth day on Wednesday.sday, but Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein said protesters were denied entry by the Knesset.
Outside parliament, the acclaimed Israeli author David Grossman told protesters: “The idea of Israel contains the idea of refugees, of people who escaped from a terrible destiny to find refuge and shelter.”He said he felt “embarrassed and ashamed that we have reached this situation. Israel has not created this problem but there is a problem now, and we have to struggle with it and to solve it in the most humane way. You are not criminals: you are normal, ordinary people who are trapped in an abnormal and very extreme situation.
Of the Africans that have arrived in recent years seeking asylum, less than one percent have received refugee status.In comparison, in the rest of the world, 43 percent of Sudanese and 81 percent of Eritreans that request asylum receive refugee status, according to the Israel Knesset Research and Information Center.
A spokesperson for the Interior Ministry’s Population, Immigration and Border Authority said that roughly 420 of the applications under consideration for refugee status had been submitted by Eritrean and Sudanese nations who were required to stay in the Holot detention facility or are jailed in the Saharonim prison, after an Israeli newspaper inquired.
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