Israel is set to force illegal African migrants to choose between leaving to a “safe third-party” country in Africa or face imprisonment, the Interior Ministry said. A statement from the ministry’s population and immigration authority said the measure would apply to migrants currently at the southern
Holot detention centre, “who infiltrated Israel and cannot be expelled to their country of origin”. There are currently around 2,000 African migrants at Holot out of an estimated 42,000 in Israel. Most of the migrants at Holot hail from Sudan and Eritrea and would face danger were they to return home.