At the opening of a meeting of Likud party cabinet members, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defends Israel’s plans to deport tens of thousands of African migrants to a third country.
Netanyahu tells ministers that Rwanda is a safe country for Israel to deport African migrants to as the United Nations is already taking care of nearly two hundred thousand refugees in the African state, Hadashot news reports.
Netanyahu has announced deals to send migrants to third-party countries in Africa, but has refused to publicly divulge where they are. Media reports have focused on Rwanda and Uganda as the destination countries.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) meets with Rwandan President Paul Kagame at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on January 24, 2018. (GPO)
“There are 180,000 refugees sitting there under the protection of the UN, so the claims that it is dangerous are a joke,” Netanyahu says, reportedly about Rwanda.
Last month, the Knesset approved an amendment to the so-called “Infiltrator’s Law” paving the way for the forced deportations of Eritrean and Sudanese migrants and asylum seekers starting in March, and the indefinite imprisonment of those who refuse to leave “voluntarily.”
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