Israel has created a detention center so that no one is just kicked back to a situation in which they face retribution, but to the protesters, that isn’t enough. They think apparently they should just be granted asylum without question.
Tel Aviv (AFP) – More than 30,000 African asylum seekers who entered Israel illegally protested in Tel Aviv on Sunday, police said, in the biggest rally ever staged by migrants in the Jewish state.
Gathered in the coastal city’s central Rabin Square, the protesters sharply criticised Israel’s refusal to give them refugee status and the detention without trial of hundreds of asylum seekers.
“We are all refugees” and “Yes to freedom, no to prison!” they chanted in English, with Israeli rights activists also joining the march.