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Migrants walk inside the burnt Moria Camp on the Greek island of Lesbos on September 9, 2020, after a major fire. (Anthi PAZIANOU / AFP)
September 9, 2020, 2:58 pm
Thousands homeless as Greece’s main migrant camp gutted by blaze
Asylum seekers flee Moria camp on Lesbos island, many sleep on the street; fire may have been started by people who resisted isolation after COVID-19 cases found
By Will Vassilopoulos and John Hadoulis
Jaivet Ealom is now a political science student at the University of Toronto. (Cole Burston/ via JTA)
July 24, 2020, 10:45 pm
Holocaust survivor’s book spurs Rohingyan refugee to escape Australian detention
‘Man’s Search for Meaning’ by Viktor Frankl allowed Jaivet Ealom to hold onto hope and flee a notoriously brutal Manus Island facility, and finally against the odds reach Canada
By Amanda Levinson
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speaks to the media after visiting the detention facility in Clint, Texas on July 1 (Christ Chavez/Getty Images via JTA)
July 9, 2019, 4:49 am
How Jews who panned AOC’s ‘concentration camps’ comments view detention centers
Most groups and individuals have condemned conditions at the sites on America’s southern border as horrific and appalling; but some are far more guarded
By Ben Sales
Asylum seekers protesting at the Holot detention center in the southern Negev Desert of Israel, February 17, 2014. (Ilia Yefimovich/Getty Images)
November 19, 2017, 4:05 pm
Ministers vote to close Holot migrant detention center
Cabinet approves plan to extend facility mandate for three months prior to closure, step up deportations, jail those who refuse to leave
By Sue Surkes and AFP
From a video work in 'Doing Time at Holot,' Ron Amir's first Israel Museum exhibit currently on display (Courtesy Israel Museum)
February 26, 2017, 12:40 pm
A side of the Negev that only African migrants see
Photographer Ron Amir’s first Israel Museum exhibit, ‘Doing Time in Holot,’ shows daily life for 3,300 would-be refugees at Israel’s desert detention center
By Jessica Steinberg
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull (AP Photo/Andrew Taylor)
February 5, 2017, 5:02 pm
Australian PM: Trump ‘committed to honor’ refugee deal
Malcolm Turnbull says there will be no link between the resettlement and future US request for military help
By Rod McGuirk
Illustrative photo of African asylum seekers, held in an open detention facility in the Negev. (Flash90)
June 24, 2016, 2:08 am
In first, Israel grants refugee status to Sudanese asylum seeker
Mutasim Ali, whose family’s village in Darfur was destroyed, has been recognized by government
By AP
This file photo taken on April 19, 2016 shows graves of migrants at a cemetery in Calais. (AFP Photo/Denis Charlet)
May 21, 2016, 7:51 am
Dignity only in death for migrants at France’s Calais ‘Jungle’
Aid workers and medical personnel work to spare the dozens who died trying to reach the UK from a nameless, forgotten fate
By David Courbet
Pope Francis greets migrants and refugees at the Moria refugee camp on April 16, 2016 near the port of Mytilene, on the Greek island of Lesbos. (AFP PHOTO POOL/FILIPPO MONTEFORTE)
April 16, 2016, 11:01 am
‘You are not alone,’ pope tells refugees in emotional Lesbos visit
At detention center on the Greek island, pontiff urges world to show ‘common humanity’; plans to take 3 families back to Rome
By AP and AFP
Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz. (photo credit: FLASH90)
April 21, 2015, 3:42 am
Minister: Migrants’ deaths show why fence is necessary
While lamenting drowning of 700 people, Yisrael Katz also praises government’s actions to stop influx via Egypt
By JTA
African asylum seekers at the Holot detention center in southern Israel on December 21, 2013 (photo credit: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
February 4, 2015, 12:41 am
High Court hears petition to strike down refugee law, again
Israeli NGOs hope to nullify amendment that allows for the detention of asylum seekers for 20 months
By Tamar Pileggi and ToI Staff
The Holot Detention Facility in early January. (photo credit: David Waxman)
January 19, 2015, 3:27 am
For Israel’s migrants, a hell frozen over
The open detention center at Holot houses more than 2,000 African migrants; to activists and residents, it’s a blight on the country’s democracy
By Debra Kamin
African migrants protesting outside the Holot detention facility in February 2014. (Flash90)
January 4, 2015, 11:25 pm
Internet campaign draws attention to asylum seekers
Social media effort highlights statements by African refugees in effort to humanize detainees
By ToI Staff
African migrants protesting outside the Holot detention facility in February 2014. (Flash90)
December 27, 2014, 6:51 pm
Hundreds protest new provision to asylum seekers law
Crowd rallies in Negev against amendment that allows detainment of refugees for up to 20 months without trial
By ToI Staff
African asylum seekers protest outside the US Embassy in Tel Aviv on Monday. (photo credit: Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
January 10, 2014, 7:56 pm
With fliers and Facebook, how Israel’s migrants birthed a movement
Protests by African asylum-seekers are coordinated by a small group of highly capable leaders, catalyzed by shared discontent, with a little NGO assistance
By Debra Kamin
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