The plan to forcibly deport thousands of illegal African migrants has been shelved by Israel, but is encouraging voluntary deportation.
In a written response to the country’s Supreme Court, the government said forced removal of the migrants “is no longer on the agenda”.

However, Israel’s immigration authorities are still seeking ways to deport migrants voluntarily, it said.
The fate of Israel’s roughly 30,000 illegal African migrants has become a hugely contentious issue.
The supreme court previously suspended a plan to expel the migrants – mostly from Eritrea and Sudan – unless they voluntarily accepted a cash lump sum and a plane ticket out of the country.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu then cancelled a UN deal to resettle the migrants in Western nations.
Under the deal, Israel would give “temporary residence” to a migrant in Israel for each migrant resettled abroad.
On Monday, 18 Democratic members of the US House of Representatives reportedly wrote to Mr Netanyahu saying they were “dismayed” and “disappointed” that he had dropped the UN proposal, saying it left the migrants “in limbo, with no clear next step”.
Most of the African migrants in Israel are from Eritrea – a one-party state whose leaders have been accused of crimes against humanity by a UN inquiry – and war-torn Sudan.
They say they fled danger at home and that it is not safe to return to another African country, but Israel considers the majority of African asylum seekers to be economic migrants.
Most of them entered from Egypt several years ago, before a new fence was built along the desert border. This has ended most illegal crossings.
A decision in January to offer the migrants a cash lump-sum and a plane ticket to leave Israel voluntarily or otherwise face forced expulsion has been criticised in Israel.
Some critics in the country and among the Jewish community abroad – including former ambassadors and Holocaust survivors – said the plan was unethical and a stain on Israel’s international image.
The UN refugee agency said it violated local and international laws, and large protests were held in Israel.
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hensben:
Same Israel Nigerian GOs run to.

moscobabs:
hope Igbos are not among ?

Afam4eva:
Nigerian Christians will now know that Israel doesn't give a fvck about Christians. God's people ideed

DJHANDSOME:
This post has nothing to do with christians, it's about people who enter the country illegally!

Afam4eva:
Nigerian Christians will now know that Israel doesn't give a fvck about Christians. God's people ideed

trapQ:
So? Everybody keeps pointing fingers at Israel as of they're doing anything bad.

No country wants illegal immigrants. Even Useless countries like Nigeria and Ghana deports illegal immigrants so shut up.

Afam4eva:

And i guess only Africans enter Israel illegally?

trapQ:
I just knew a stupid atheist would say this. Receive sense

akeentech:
And some 1diots dey call broh J (an Israelite) their Lord and saviour.

trapQ:
Nice one from Israel. Illegal immigrants are not needed anywhere.

PS: So Egypt built a wall and those same hypocrites branded Trump a racist for wanting to build a wall?

Afam4eva:

And i guess only Africans enter Israel illegally?