Over 20,000 protest coming deportation of African asylum seekers The protest rally held in Rabin Square in Tel Aviv was planned by several NGOs, Sudanese and Eritrean groups, the Stop the Deportation movement, and the South Tel Aviv against the Deportation group,
African asylum seekers in Israel go on hunger strike to protest imprisonment The protest began after the first seven Eritreans who refused to leave the country were jailed.
Israel begins distributing deportation notices to African migrants The first notices will be issued to single men without children, a total of about 20,000 men.
Culture Doctors, pilots and Holocaust survivors try to thwart Israel’s plan to deport African migrants