13:39, 04-Jan-2018
Africans in Israel: Israel tells African refugees to leave or face arrest
[]
Share
Copied
The Israeli government has ordered 38 thousand African asylum seekers to leave the country within 90 days or face imprisonment.
BENJAMIN NETANYAHU ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER "The infiltrators have a simple choice: to cooperate with us and willingly leave, in a respectable, humane and legal manner, or else we will obviously have to operate with the other tools at our disposal, which are also legal. I hope they will choose to cooperate with us."
Most of the people ordered out of the country are from Eritrea and Sudan. Israel has reached an agreement with Rwanda and Uganda which have agreed to accept the refugees. Israeli authorities are offering 3 thousand 5 hundred US dollars to people who leave. Anyone who remains in April will be jailed.