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By Agence France-Presse
Monday, December 24, 2012 21:00 EST
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday he aims to repatriate tens of thousands of African illegal migrants and that the inflow into Israel from the Sinai peninsula has been brought to a halt.
Our aim is to repatriate tens of thousands of infiltrators now in Israel to their countries of origin, he said, adding Israel had been in contact with several African governments.
After having been confronted by the threat of hundreds of thousands (of illegal migrants), this month not a single infiltrator has reached cities in Israel, he said, quoted in a government statement.
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Rising tensions over the growing number of illegal immigrants exploded into violence in May when a protest in south Tel Aviv turned ugly, with demonstrators smashing African-run shops and property, chanting Blacks out!
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byeya
(2,842 posts)PCIntern
(25,491 posts)How many democratically elected heads of state are there in the Mideast? I've lost count...
msongs
(67,366 posts)this sort of thing before? hmmm