African asylum seekers in Israel march on Jerusalem to protest conditions - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

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Gerry Simpson

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Israeli immigration policemen force an African migrant onto a bus headed to a prison, during a protest in front of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem December 17, 2013. Israeli police on Tuesday sent back to custody more than 150 African migrants who had abandoned a desert holding facility in protest of a new law allowing them to be kept there indefinitely. REUTERS/Ammar Awad (JERUSALEM - Tags: SOCIETY IMMIGRATION POLITICS CIVIL UNREST) - RTX16MBK — Israeli immigration policemen force an African migrant onto a bus headed to prison during a protest in front of the Knesset, Jerusalem, Dec. 17, 2013. — REUTERS/Ammar Awad

An African migrant walks outside the Holot open detention centre in Israel's southern Negev desert September 22, 2014. Israel's high court on Monday outlawed a detention centre where African migrants are held without trial and ordered some 2,000 inmates there released over the next three months. REUTERS/ Amir Cohen (ISRAEL - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY IMMIGRATION) - RTR47A6X

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Children cross the street as residents of south Tel Aviv carry Israeli flags during a protest against African migrants living in their neighbourhoods May 30, 2012. Last week a similar protest held by residents of the low-income neighbourhoods where many of the border-jumpers from Eritrea, Sudan and South Sudan live led to violence, including a rampage that an Israeli broadcaster dubbed a "pogrom". Fleeing poverty, fighting and authoritarian rule, some 60, 000 Africans have crossed illegally into Israel thro

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An African migrant sits with compatriots on the third day of protests against Israel's detention policy toward migrants it sees as illegal job-seekers, in Tel Aviv's Levinsky park January 7, 2014. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun (ISRAEL - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST SOCIETY IMMIGRATION) - RTX17549

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