Twenty-four Sudanese refugees reached Israel. The group of men, women and children, apparently fleeing the slaughter in Darfur, arrived in Beersheba on Wednesday after slipping in from Egypt. Their arrival stirred a bureaucratic debate in Israel, with neither the military nor police wanting to detain them and the Interior Ministry unsure about how to accommodate illegal migrants from a country classified as an enemy. Around 250 Sudanese have sought refuge in Israel over the past year. Most are in jail while the government discusses asylum options, but a small number have been placed in temporary kibbutz homes.
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