Myths, facts and suggestions: Asylum seekers in Israel
TO READ THE ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS SUCH AS THE FOLLOWING
“They themselves say that they are coming to work”
“The residents of South Tel Aviv and Eilat are suffering”
“Israel doesn’t need to help all the poor people in the world”
“There is a limit to the number of refugees you can take”
“We’ll build a fence to prevent their entry”
“We’ll build a huge prison, and when it’s established we won’t let them work”
“So what do you suggest?”
“They are men and women, children, young people and old people who seek a place where they can live in peace,” the Pope declared from the window of his study, where he had led those gathered in St. Peter’s Square in praying the Angelus. The Holy Father referred to his message for the world day, which he dedicated to the theme of migrants and evangelization. “Migrants,” he stated, “are not only recipients but also protagonists of the proclamation of the Gospel in the contemporary world.”
Arish – We have received important news from Hamdy Al-Azazy, the extraordinary Egyptian human rights defender, President of the New Generation Foundation for Human Rights, who has prevented many humanitarian tragedies in Northern Sinai.
180 Eritreans Released from the Sinai Slavery, Detained in Israeli’s Prisons
“As I told you,” says the activist, “my work in the North Sinai Governorate (in collaboration with some important groups of Bedouin activists) continues unabated. Through this work, this week traffickers released 180 Eritrean refugees on the border with Israel. They are now in the Jewish state”. EveryOne Group has received confirmation of the transfer of refugees from the Israeli authorities. The refugees, however, are being held in custody, according to the new anti – immigration laws recently approved by the Knesset. The Ma’an news agency has reported the incident.
EveryOne Group has sent an appeal to the UNHCR and the Israeli institutions asking for the 180 refugees (persecuted in their homeland and the victims of trafficking, torture and episodes of rape in the Sinai) to be treated according to the international charters on human rights and the Geneva Convention on Refugees.
Hamdy Al-Azazy has been able to secure the release of 8 Eritrean and Ethiopian girls from Rumana Prison, as well as a supply of food and medicine for the 48 refugees still being detained in the detention centre. Unfortunately the activist has also sent us news of the discovery of the corpse of a young Eritrean woman who was shot through the head near the Israeli border. In Northern Sinai, border guards have arrested 45 sub-Saharan migrants, of whom we have no further news.
Taken from http://www.tolerance.ca/Article.aspx?ID=128733&L=en
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ካብ: ሃብተአብ ተኪኤ (Habteab Tekie)
“ብዙኅ ብኽያትን ዋይዋይታን ኮነ፡፡ ራሔል ብደቃ በኸየት፡፡
ስለ ዘየለዉ ከአ፡ ምእባድ አበየት” (ወንጌል ማቴዎስ ምዕ. 2, 18)።
ኦእግዚአብሔር ፈጣሪ፡ ኵነታትናን ስሚዕትናን እውን ከምዚ ናይ
ራሔል እዩ እሞ፡
ብፍላይ ምእንትቶም አብ ደብረ ሲና (ግብጺ) ዚሕረዱን ዚቕተሉን
ዘሎዉ አኅዋትና አኃትናን ክንልምነካ እኒሆ አብ ቅድሜኻ ቀሪብና፡፡
ንጹሕ ደሞም አብ ቅድሜኻ ከም ዘእወየ ንአምን ኢና፡፡
አውያቶም ሰሚዕካ ከአ፡ “ንዑ ናባይ”፣ “ምሳይ ይኅሸኩም”፣ ቢልካ
ናብ ሕቝፍካ ከምዝጸዋዕካዮም ንአምን ኢና፡፡
ስደት ግብጺ፡ ጐ.ኢ.ክ. ወድኻ እውን ፈቲኑዎ እዩ፡፡
ሽዑ፡ ሞት ደመኛ ሄሮድስ ምስ አረጋጽካ ንዓዱ ንናዝሬት ኪምለስ
ፈቐድካሉ፡፡
አኅዋትናን አኃትናን እውን፡ ካብ ሐደ ደመኛ ኪሀድሙ እንኪብሉ
እዮም አብ ምድሪ ግብጺ ፋሕ ኢሎም ዘሎዉ እሞ፡
ነቶም ዝሞቱ ዘለዓለማዊ ዕረፍቲ ክትህቦም፣ ነቶም ብሕይወቶም
ዘሎዉ፡ ንዓዶም ተመሊሶም ብሰላም ምእንቲ ኪነብሩ፡ ንብዓል ደሞም
ኡፍ ክትብለሎም፣ ንቤተሰቦም ከተጸናንዖም፣ ንሀገርና ከአ ጠልን
በረከትን ከተውርደላ፣ … ብጐይታና ኢየሱስ ክርስቶስ ፍቑር ወድኻ
ብትሕትና ንልምነካ፡፡ አሜን፡፡
አስተውዕል→ ነፍሲወከፍና ሐደ “አቡነ ዘበሰማያት…” የብጽሕ፡፡
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When People of the Promise were persecuted and chased away from Yemen, the country they turned to was Eritrea. There they were welocomed, allowed to settle, build their own Synagogue, which not even the Marxist Leninist Dergue dared to close down or confiscate. In Eritrea the Jew community thrived. With a fraction of a $165 million investment in clean and committed diplomacy, the very sources of all these migrants, asylum seekers and refugees could be dried up.
TO OUR READERS: MERRY CHRISTMAS !
by Fr. Vittorio Boria
CHRISTMAS, THE DAY GOD IN JESUS, STARTED WALKING IN HIS OWN BODY OUR HUMAN HISTORY.
The Son of God was welcomed into the world, away from his mother’s home. She had to follow orders by an occupying power that forced her to abandon her home and give birth to her “firstborn child” in a manger, because there was not room for her in the guest house. Although Angels sang for Him in the skies, only poor shepherds welcomed him. Priests and learned personalities on Jerusalem, consulted, had the answer ready: “he was to be born in Bethlehem”. Stragers came from afar to pay him homage, but the cream of Jerusalem did not even try, perhaps afraid the ire of King Herod.
When Herod found that the wisemen had fooled him, he sent soldiers to kill Baby Jesus, and in order not to miss him, the babies below 2 years of age in Bethlehem and its surroundings were all sentenced to death. Again, no one in Jerusalem stood up for the Child of Mary nor for the innocents Bethlehemite babies.
By Don Futterman
An estimated 50,000 African refugees, mostly from Eritrea and Sudan, have snuck into Israel through Sinai over the past five years. They tend to concentrate in areas such as south Tel Aviv, taking jobs away from the poorest of Israelis, and increasing public disorder. Their arrival has changed the complexion of entire neighborhoods and given locals the feeling they have been invaded, leading Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai to demand that the prime minister save his city.
Israel’s “war on work infiltrators”
“Infiltrators” is the government and media’s name for the African refugees crossing the Egyptian border into Israel. ”Survivors” is more accurate, but no matter; we’re going to war.
“How will the program for the war on work infiltrators be funded?” read the subhead in today’s Yediot Aharonot story. “The war on work infiltrators is being stepped up…” the opening sentence began.
The war on work infiltrators. This is what “the newspaper of the nation” calls the government’s program to deter refugees, mainly from Eritrea and Sudan, from crossing the Egyptian border into Israel. (In Yediot’s English-language website, ynet, they’re referred to as “illegal refugees.” Nice.) At the bottom of the story, there’s a photo of a woman with a little boy, and it’s captioned, “Female infiltrator and her son on the Egyptian border.”
CAIRO—Egypt’s year of political upheaval has left a shortfall in some law enforcement, and that has been a boon for criminal organizations that traffic in human organs, a human-rights group says.
On Monday, the Coalition for Organ-Failure Solutions, a nonprofit international health and human-rights organization, is to release a new study that shines a spotlight an underground trade that world health experts say thrives here and affects thousands of African refugees in the country.
The report, titled “Sudanese Victims of Organ Trafficking in Egypt,” includes video testimony of corroborating victims, as well as documentation of ultrasounds, and records from transplant …
Stefan Kessler
A conference in Brussels has heard that the EU “actively hinders” the arrival of refugees to Europe.
The event was told this is the result of a “deep-seated aversion” of EU countries to give forced migrants access to asylum procedures.
Member states had also “failed” to agree on comprehensive reforms to improve national asylum systems, it was said.