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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 373

illegal migrants

Eritrean migrants arrested by police following a brawl in south Tel Aviv on July 7, 2024. (Israel Police)
July 8, 2024, 12:29 am
One killed, one seriously injured in brawl between rival Eritrean groups in Tel Aviv
In latest clashes between pro-regime, anti-regime migrants — including some asylum seekers — police say people were attacked with spikes and clubs, pelted with stones
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: People take part in a rally against deportations of migrants, in Tel Aviv, August 13, 2022 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
February 14, 2024, 9:43 am
Migrant father of soldier serving in Gaza campaign said to face deportation
Ghana man arrived in Israel in 1991, married, and raised daughter who was given permanent status; immigrant wife granted citizenship; attorney vows to take case to Supreme Court
By ToI Staff
This undated handout image provided by Greece's coast guard on Wednesday, June 14, 2023, shows scores of people covering practically every free stretch of deck on a battered fishing boat that later capsized and sank off southern Greece. (Hellenic Coast Guard via AP)
June 17, 2023, 9:42 pm
Did migrants reject help before deadly Greek wreck, or beg for it? Sides disagree
Over 600 people are feared dead in Mediterranean disaster that has left more questions than answers about ship’s final hours
By Renata Brito
Body bags lie at the scene where a tractor trailer with multiple dead bodies was discovered, in San Antonio, June 27, 2022. (Eric Gay/AP)
June 28, 2022, 8:10 am
‘Horrific tragedy’: 46 suspected migrants found dead in San Antonio trailer
Cry for help from truck container leads to grisly discovery; another 16, including 4 children, hospitalized with heat-related illnesses; three suspects detained
By ERIC GAY and Elliot Spagat
Illustrative: Migrants and refugees panic as they fall in the water during a rescue operation of the Topaz Responder rescue ship run by Maltese NGO Moas and Italian Red Cross, off the Libyan coast in the Mediterranean Sea, on November 3, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/ANDREAS SOLARO)
September 15, 2020, 10:02 am
UN peacekeepers rescue 36 off Lebanese coast 
One migrant dies before rescue; Lebanon and neighboring Cyprus report several migrant vessels trying to leave the Middle Eastern country in recent weeks
By AFP
Bound civilians are placed on flights only in extreme cases, when they become violent and pose a threat to themselves or others, an official with the Population and Immigration Authority says (Illustrative. Roy Alima/Flash90)
September 26, 2019, 11:48 am
Passenger says Israel deporting migrants to Egypt on commercial flights
Eyewitness says handcuffed African man pleaded for help on plane; Immigration Authority says it is unfamiliar with the case
By Tani Goldstein
Rosa Ramirez sobs as she shows journalists toys that belonged to her nearly 2-year-old granddaughter Valeria in her home in San Martin, El Salvador, Tuesday, June 25, 2019. The drowned bodies of Ramirez's son, 25-year-old Oscar Alberto Martinez Ramirez, and his daughter were located Monday morning on the banks of the Rio Grande, a day after the pair were swept away by the current when the young family tried to cross the river to Brownsville, Texas. Her daughter-in-law Tania Vanessa Avalos, 21, survived. (AP Photo/Antonio Valladares)
June 27, 2019, 5:22 am
‘They died in each other’s arms,’ migrant’s mother says
Rosa Ramírez takes some solace in seeing the shocking picture of her son and granddaughter drowned in the Rio Grand, knowing that he never let go of the little girl
By MARCOS ALEMÁN and Peter Orsi
Edward Mosberg, holding a Torah scroll, during March of the Living in 2017 at the former death camp Auschwitz in Poland. (Courtesy of From the Depths via JTA)
June 21, 2019, 5:10 pm
Survivor invites Ocasio-Cortez to tour Auschwitz with him
‘It should be a requirement of all United States Congressmen to visit Auschwitz,’ says Edward Mosberg, 93, after lawmaker calls US migrant detention centers ‘concentration camps’
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) visiting the home of south Tel Aviv resident Sophia Menashe on August 31, 2017. (Screen capture: Facebook)
January 14, 2019, 9:19 am
Elderly woman promised safety by Netanyahu robbed in south Tel Aviv – report
In 2017 video, PM visited the home of Sophia Menashe, 70, and vowed to help her in light of African ‘illegal infiltrators’
By ToI Staff
Eritrean demonstrators chanted "Refugees, not infiltrators," outside of the Rwandan Embassy in Herzilya on January 22, 2018. (Melanie Lidman/ Times of Israel)
November 20, 2018, 3:26 pm
Netanyahu: Israel won’t sign global migration pact, must protect its borders
PM says Israel will withdraw from nonbinding compact, which is set to be approved at UN gathering in Morocco next month; US among others also rejecting it
By ToI Staff
In this June 22, 2018, file photo, a mother, left, and son, from Guatemala, hold hands during a news conference following their reunion in Linthicum, Maryland, after being reunited following their separation at the US border. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)
July 10, 2018, 10:06 am
Dozens of immigrant children in US set to reunite with parents
Following court deadline, 54 kids under the age of 5 will end isolation Tuesday — only half of those covered by the order
By Elliot Spagat
Children of an African migrant from Nigeria who have been jailed with her mother in Ramle as Israel tries to deport her. (Screen capture/Channel 10)
July 8, 2018, 5:03 pm
Migrant woman and children prepare to fly back to Nigeria
Plight of Marcy’s four young kids made headlines after officials jailed them last month, citing mother’s repeated refusal to return to her homeland
By ToI Staff
Children of an African migrant from Nigeria who have been jailed with their mother in Ramle's Givon Prison as Israel tries to deport her. (Channel 10 screen capture)
July 7, 2018, 11:10 am
Holocaust survivor slams Israel’s jailing of migrant children
Marcel Stahl says footage of young kids behind bars with their mothers, who Israel is trying to deport, took him back to the days of the Nazis
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Young boys from Eritrea seen at the Givon Prison, near Ramle, in 2010. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
July 6, 2018, 3:59 am
Israel said to be jailing young children of illegal African migrants
Newspaper reveals that Givon Prison houses half a dozen children under the age of 7 without appropriate facilities or support staff
By ToI Staff
Martin Levine protests near the US Homestead Temporary Shelter for Unaccompanied Children on Tuesday, June 19, 2018, in Homestead, Fla. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
June 20, 2018, 5:24 am
Nazi comparisons as Dem. lawmakers barred from child migrant facility in Florida
Trump administration accused of ‘cover-up’ after blocking elected officials at detention center; one protester holds sign showing Nazi guard pulling child from Jewish mother
By JOSHUA REPLOGLE and Ben Fox
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