JERUSALEM (VINnews) — During Sunday’s cabinet meeting, Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu today (Sunday) convened a special team of ministers to decide how Eritrean infiltrators who break the law should be dealt with, following the violent attacks on police officers that took place Saturday in southern Tel Aviv.
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At the request of National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, and with the assent of the Interior Ministry and the Prosecutor’s Office, most of the detainees from the riots will continue to be held in administrative detention, even with a relatively low level of evidence.
Ben-Gvir requested that the police that any additional rioters who are arrested also be held in administrative detention. The ministers agreed to promote a Basic Law: Immigration to deal with the issue of illegal infiltration, and to examine the possibility of revoking the work permits of people who are staying in Israel illegally.
This is not Eritrea! This is Israel! Tribal fight between Eritreans in Southern Tel Aviv today! There are thousands of Eritrean refugees currently living in Tel Aviv and Israeli government doesn’t know what to do with them! Even Israeli police is afraid to intervene and stop them… pic.twitter.com/K3QEdAT342
— Babak Taghvaee – The Crisis Watch (@BabakTaghvaee1) September 2, 2023
At least 40 people remained hospitalized Sunday morning, 12 of them in serious condition, with injuries sustained during the violent clashes in south Tel Aviv between supporters and opponents of Eritrea’s government on Saturday.
Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Medical Center said 24 people were still hospitalized there, including seven in serious condition. The injuries were not life-threatening, the hospital said.
At Ramat Gan’s Sheba Medical Center, four people were still hospitalized, three of them in critical condition. A policeman was hospitalized in moderate condition in the neurosurgery unit after having a piece of a camping stove removed from his head.
Prime Minister Netanyahu said at the beginning of the discussion: “The massive illegal infiltration into Israel from Africa posed a real threat to Israel’s future as a Jewish and democratic state. We stopped this threat by building the fence; building the fence involved overcoming opposition from the security establishment and our political opponents. When we stopped it, we stopped the infiltration completely, and I am proud that the governments under my leadership did this.”
Netanyahu added that “There remains the problem of those who had already entered before the completion of the fence, tens of thousands of illegal infiltrators who entered Israel. We removed twelve thousand of them voluntarily, through various incentives and various measures. We wanted more, we proposed a series of measures, including the recent deposit law, and unfortunately all were rejected by the Supreme Court.”
Supreme Court. Is the issue.
I cannot understand how the government of Israel over the last twelve years allowed not only the Eritreans to enter Israel illegally, but also thousands of illegal aliens from other third world countries, who were smuggled across the Sinai into Israel. Once they are in Israel, there seems to be red tape and a problem in deporting them. There have been attacks by some of these illegals against citizens of Israel. Israel has enough internal problems without having to support these illegals.
Waiting for Charlie to post his strong support for these poor asylum seekers.
Send them to Brooklyn. Eric Adams is always looking to help a brother.
The fighting between Eritreans was not “tribal”. It was between supporters of the present dictator and his enemies. So sad Israeli police were hurt. The rioters of both sides should be deported.
And please don’t take any unsolicited advice from the Biden administration telling you how to handle it. Everything they touched in this country and the world over, turned into an absolute mess.
Deport them with the rest of bantu falashas
The Supreme Court is the issue, but that court worries about what the international court will say if they deport these people. Perhaps the latter fear is what stops our own federal govt. from acting on the migrant problem. The states blame the feds, the feds blame the various states, the governors blame the mayors, and vice versa. The fault lies at the top. Talk about a breakdown of anything resembling sanity, both here and in E”Y.
Eritrea is a crisis the West won’t deal with. Afwerki, a Socialist, became the President in 1993 and has since turned the entire country into one big single-party dictatorship. Mandatory Army Service begins at the end of High School, but noone is allowed out of the military. Every single citizen, young and old, is officially in the army. They must receive permission to live “off-base” (Base is a nice word for Internment Camp) work, marry and even have children. People are building roads, farming and working for foreign corporations for free as part of their “army service”. The rich people get out of it – provided they pay. Everyone else gets $600 for their “military service” and the government is in control of the food. If you work at a factory, the factory pays the military for your work and you get what the military pays you. There is no economic movement, Eritrea refuses to take foreign aid and anyone who complains is simply shot. The official reason the government gives for this arrangement is that they could be invaded by Eithiopia at any given moment; Eithiopia has already stated that they have no plans. There is 1 TV channel, and the news is given by the government. The people know what’s going on, they are exposed to the outside world, but noone is able to do anything. Because the West values stability over everything, noone wants to help; young people are forced to escape, while thousands more are imprisoned indefinitely without trial. Israel is one of the few allies of Eritrea – they have a foreign military base there, and they feel bad for the escapees. If you look at the videos, the people in blue are the escapees; the people in red are the people who started out rich and work in Israel to send money back to Afwerki and keep their favored status.
This is the outcome of years of deliberate neglect by Israeli governments. The following is from the Hotline for Migrant Workers.
“The largest group of people entering Israel via the border with Egypt [are] nationals of Sudan and Eritrea. […] The Ministry of Interior regularly emphasizes that these are not refugees and that the vast majority have never applied for asylum. However, […] The Ministry of Interior refuses to conduct individual examinations of asylum applications made by nationals of these two countries and to ascertain whether they meet the criteria of a refugee [as it must,] according to the Refugee Convention [to which Israel is signed]. In cases where the Hotline for Migrant Workers requested the individual examination of applications made by nationals of Sudan or Eritrea, the reply has always been that the RSD [Refugee Status Determination] Unit does not deal with their applications. [Instead, the Unit] states the following: “At this stage the RSD unit does not deal with foreign subjects whose nationality is Eritrean or Sudanese. [They] are entitled as it is to temporary protection.”
That is: Israel has granted this entire population temporary protection pending the examinations that it hasn’t bothered to conduct.
Forget them.
Let them riot and rip Tel Aviv apart.
The leftist Tel Aviv animals should experience first hand what they wreak upon others.
The cops should focus on terrorists.