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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 469

Sudanese refugees

Israeli-born children of African migrants and asylum-seekers protest against segregated education in Tel Aviv, September 1, 2021, Rabin Square, Tel Aviv. (Courtesy, Levinsky Garden Library)
June 18, 2024, 7:19 am
First year of integrating migrant children with Israelis in Tel Aviv schools ‘a success’
Municipality, Education Ministry announced integration pilot for first-graders days before High Court was to discuss petition against segregation
By Sue Surkes
Adam Barima (Courtesy)
January 31, 2024, 8:39 pm
Adam Brema, 47: Sudanese asylum-seeker slain in Sderot
Murdered by Hamas terrorists in Sderot on October 7
By ToI Staff
People cross the border from Sudan to South Sudan at the Joda border crossing in South Sudan on May 16, 2023. (AP Photo/Sam Mednick, file)
June 14, 2023, 11:07 pm
UN says 2 million displaced in Sudan since beginning of conflict in April
Over 900 civilians have been killed and more than half a million have fled
By SAM MAGDY
Smoke rises in Khartoum, Sudan, April 29, 2023, as gunfire and heavy artillery fire continued despite the extension of a cease-fire between the country's two top generals. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali)
May 21, 2023, 10:04 pm
Latest ceasefire in Sudan violated within hours, as humanitarian crisis worsens
The most recent truce, the first to be supported by a joint US-Saudi effort, is set to take effect on Monday evening, violence erupted in Khartoum within hours of its signing
By AFP
Omer Easa from Sudan poses for a portrait inside the offices of the Hotline for Migrant Workers, a rights group, in Tel Aviv, Israel, April 30, 2023 (AP/Maya Alleruzzo)
May 5, 2023, 2:00 pm
Sudanese asylum seekers worry about future in Israel, fighting at home
Overhaul’s proponents say African migrants are a main reason it must pass, citing it as example of judicial overreach; activists say Supreme Court protects those fleeing danger
By Tia Goldenberg
African migrants protest at the Holot detention center near Ketziot, in the Negev Desert, southern Israel, February 17, 2014. (FLASH90)
April 27, 2023, 8:56 am
Overhaul backers turn thrice-struck asylum seeker law into emblem of court activism
Contrasting justices’ rejection of bill jailing African migrants with their approval of Gaza Disengagement Law, Simcha Rothman cuts to very heart of debate dividing Israeli society
By Jeremy Sharon
Sudanese refugees demonstrate in front of the Knesset in protest of the new "Holot" detention camp for illegal migrants, on Monday, December 17, 2013. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 26, 2021, 8:55 am
Israel to grant temporary residency to 2,440 Sudanese asylum seekers
Status will grant almost all the same rights as citizens, except voting in elections; can be renewed after 6 months if they prove their lives are centered in Israel
By ToI Staff
A Sudanese migrant family are seen in a closed Sudanese restaurant in south Tel Aviv, on October 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)
November 17, 2021, 1:21 pm
Sudanese migrants in Israel fear deportation to post-coup Sudan
Director of Israeli migrant advocacy group says that while Israel ‘does not send migrants back,’ it makes their lives difficult on the ground
By jack jeffery
Illustrative: A United Nations peacekeeping force (UNIFIL) convoy patrols next to Naqoura, in Lebanon near its border with Israel, October 13, 2020. (Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP)
March 22, 2021, 1:43 am
3 Sudanese migrants detained, returned to Lebanon after trying to cross border
Migrants have repeatedly attempted to enter Jewish state in search of work in light of ongoing Lebanese economic crisis
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: The Israeli military fires flares into the sky over the Lebanese border on August 25, 2020. (Courtesy)
November 29, 2020, 1:00 am
2 Sudanese migrants arrested after crossing into Israel from Lebanon
Border breach prompts army to shoot up flares, alarming local residents, before incident is determined to not be security-related
By ToI Staff
Ethiopians who fled their homes due to ongoing fighting are pictured at a refugee camp in the Hamdait border area of Sudan's eastern Kassala state, on November 12, 2020. (Photo by - / AFP)
November 15, 2020, 1:25 pm
In huge escalation, Ethiopian rebel forces fire missiles at Eritrean capital
Leader of Ethiopia’s Tigray region accuses Eritrea of sending soldiers across the border, threatens more rockets ‘as long as troops are fighting here’
By Cara Anna
File: Sudanese and Eritrean refugees in South Tel Aviv in 2011 (Nicky Kelvin/Flash90)
October 27, 2020, 3:22 am
Israel, Sudan discuss draft proposal for repatriating Sudanese refugees – report
Jerusalem looking at offering those willing to return home guarantees of safety, vocational training and a generous grant, according to Channel 12
By ToI Staff
Alteyb Hhmad. a Sudanese asylum seeker, in Tel Aviv on October 25, 2020 (Simona Weinglass/Times of Israel)
October 26, 2020, 6:49 pm
In Tel Aviv, Sudanese migrants say Israel making peace with a rotten regime
Asylum seekers question why Netanyahu would normalize ties with transitional leaders considered illegitimate by pro-democracy Sudanese
By Simona Weinglass
In this June 20, 2019 photo, a teenager films Sudanese dancers on her mobile phone during an event marking the UN's International Refugee Day, in Cairo, Egypt. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
January 6, 2020, 5:37 am
Fleeing war and poverty, African migrants face racism in Egypt
At least two dozen sub-Saharan Africans, including 4 children, tell The Associated Press they have endured racist insults, including sexual harassment, over past 3 months alone
By Samy Magdy
Detained African migrants standing outside the Holot detention center, located in Israel's southern Negev desert near the Egyptian border, February 4, 2018. (MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP)
December 24, 2019, 5:22 pm
UN refugee envoy urges Israel to reconsider nixed deal to resettle migrants
Damtew Dessalegne criticizes Jerusalem policy that sees asylum seekers from Eritrea and Sudan as infiltrators, calls on Jewish state to provide ‘humane’ solution
By ToI Staff
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