Eritreans in Israel demonstrate
During Tuesday’s demonstration, the Eritreans also demanded an end to deportations of newcomers from Eritrea and other countries back to Egypt after they cross the border into Israel. The protesters wore white masks to conceal their faces, fearing if their faces were revealed their families in Eritrea could be persecuted by authorities there.
More than 5,000 of the 13,000 asylum seekers in Israel are from Eritrea, which is located in northeast Africa.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees prohibits deportation of asylum seekers to Eritrea due to the danger facing those who return there.
“We already see a little light. We believe in the democracy in Israel and that is why we dared demonstrate, something we would never do in Eritrea,” one of the Eritrean Committee members who organized the demonstration said. ” We want the Israeli public to understand our problems and we believe that the Israeli public will influence the government to accept our plea.”
January 1, 2009
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How Jews treat Palestinians . . .
2008-02-16
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Jews are always the first to point out alleged “racism” by Whites against anyone else. Yet how do the Jews themselves treat Palestinians? A United Nations inspector found out . . .
The UN’s top humanitarian affairs official has said he was shocked by the “grim and miserable” situation he witnessed on a visit to the Gaza Strip.
Undersecretary General John Holmes said it was the result of Israel closing its border crossings and the “limited food and other materials” allowed in. Mr Holmes said 80% of Gaza’s 1.5m population now depended on food aid.
The restrictions prompted militants from the Islamist movement Hamas, which controls Gaza, to blast holes in the border with Egypt on 23 January. The breaches were sealed by Egyptian security forces only on 3 February, by which time hundreds of thousands of Palestinians had taken the opportunity to cross into Egypt and obtain essential supplies.
As part of a four-day visit to Israel and the Palestinian Territories, Mr Holmes toured the Shifa Hospital, the largest in the Gaza Strip, and the Karni industrial zone near the closed cargo crossing on the Israeli border.
“I have been shocked by the grim and miserable things I have seen and heard about during the day,” he told reporters at the main UN compound in Gaza City.
“[They] are the result of the current restrictions on the crossings into Gaza, and the very limited amounts of foods and other materials being allowed in.”
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