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The Sinai peninsula is becoming Hell on earth to the Eritrean Migrants & refugees, In addition Israel and Egypt imprison those who escaped the terrible ordeal who already faced  a trauma in the hands of the Arab bedouins in the Sinai,who inturn kidnapped these victms in colaboration with corrupt Eritrean Colonels & Generals,  in line with the policy of the Eritrean Prisident Isayas Afewrki to destroy,devastate the Eritrean Nation and annehiliate its people.

Rueters: “Israel has launched a forced repatriation of Eritrean migrants that amounts to a grave violation of their human rights because of the risk of persecution in their reclusive homeland, an advocacy group has said.

Israeli authorities have been trying to curb an influx of Africans that has ignited resentment in the poorer neighbourhoods in which they dwell and compounded the fears of many Israelis about eventually being outnumbered in the Jewish state. But humanitarian groups say that forcibly returning African migrants home often exposes them to rights abuses including torture.

Some 60,000 Africans, including 35,000 Eritreans, have walked over a long porous desert border with Egypt into Israel since 2006, Israeli government figures show, and many live in gritty districts of Tel Aviv.Israel regards most as illegal job-seekers but rights agencies say many should be considered for political asylum because of poor human rights records of their home governments.The men who left on Sunday were the first sent back to Eritrea, which was accused last year by the UN human rights chief of practicing torture.”

Deportation is not a solution for ……If these people are returned, their lives will undoubtedly be in danger as the result. People are concerned that Israeli authorities are not acknowledging the imminent and serious danger to the asylum seekers’ lives nor are they processing their asylum claims responsibly, transparently, or fairly. We believe that such treatment of those who have fled from an oppressive and tyrannical regime is unconscionable.

History is repeating by the current government of  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…………….a right wing and very dangerous leader who already caused a Hell in Phalestina. His friend in the Horn of Africa Isayas Afeweri, although his psych may not match the Israeli Prime Minister but the evil intentions of both these men match as twins. Surprisingly to many people,  is that Israel and the israeli people claim that they are the only democratic “nation” in the Middle East.The evidence is different, when this so called “democratic society kill innocent Eritrean families,by throwing a coctail bomb in their home,killing refugees by the Orthodox Jews in Telavive,Ashdod and Eliat etc….

The UN Human Rights has advised the government of Israel not to deport Eritrean asylum seekers but today we witness…..that history repeating by the same migrant population from Europe and Eastern Europe who were denied their rights to exist are denying refugees who flee the terrible rule of a tyrrant of an unknown magnitude of Crimes.

According to those detained in the Saharonim internment camp for asylum seekers, on July 14, about 15 Eritreans who spent the last year in Saharonim prison were returned to Asmara, Eritrea where they will face probable arrest, torture, and danger to life. We are aware that there are around 200 Eritreans in total who have been designated to return to Eritrea.

Israeli authorities have been trying to curb an influx of Africans that has ignited resentment in the poorer neighborhoods in which they dwell and compounded the fears of many Israelis about eventually being outnumbered in the Jewish state. But humanitarian groups say that forcibly returning African migrants home often exposes them to rights abuses including torture.

Some 60,000 Africans, including 35,000 Eritreans, have walked over a long porous desert border with Egypt into Israel since 2006, Israeli government figures show, and many live in gritty districts of Tel Aviv.

Israel regards most as illegal job-seekers but rights agencies say many should be considered for political asylum because of poor human rights records of their home governments.

Hotline for Migrant Workers (HMW), an Israeli human rights group, said an initial group of 14 Eritrean men were flown to Asmara, the Eritrean capital, on Sunday, after receiving $1,500 each from Israeli authorities.

They were driven to the airport from one of two desert detention centers that Israel has expanded. A law passed a year ago, and now being contested in its high court, allows the country to jail migrants it says arrived illegally.

Israel had said in the past that it was seeking third-country destinations for Eritreans.

“GRAVE VIOLATION”

Sigal Rozen, public policy coordinator for HMW, a group that objects to most deportations of migrants, told Reuters the latest repatriations were “a grave human rights violation”.

Rozen said those repatriated had signed consent forms but she argued their agreement could not be seen as voluntary because Israeli authorities made clear the only way they would be freed from detention was by returning home.

She said at least one of the Eritreans had said he was a military deserter, and could face punishment at home.

A Tel Aviv-based representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees monitoring migrants’ treatment in Israel had no immediate comment. She said she was seeking confirmation from Israel of the Eritreans’ repatriation.

New York-based Human Rights Watch also condemned the new repatriations. In a statement emailed to news media, Gerry Simpson, a senior HRW refugee researcher, accused Israel of “using the threat of prolonged detention to force Eritrean and Sudanese nationals to give up their asylum claims”.

Worldwide, HRW said, around 80 percent of Eritrean asylum seekers are granted some form of protection because of credible fears of persecution relating to punishment for evading indefinite military service in Eritrea and other widespread rights abuses in the small Horn of Africa state.

Last month, an Israeli government lawyer said at a Supreme Court hearing on the legality of detaining asylum-seekers who entered surreptitiously that a deal to resettle “infiltrators from Eritrea” had been reached with a country she did not name.

At least one group of Africans was flown out of Israel to South Sudan in the past year and other migrants have been offered cash to leave voluntarily. Some 2,000 Africans are being held in the southern detention centers.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said that a fence which Israel completed along most of the Egyptian border earlier this year has significantly reduced the flow of migration from Africa, which hit a peak of 2,000 a month in 2011.

Jerusalem Post:Finally, somebody’s come up with a plausible solution for the African refugee problem: Send Mossad agents to kill the Sinai Beduin smugglers who bring them here.An Eritrean woman said the smugglers beat her to a pulp and got her to call a friend in Sudan for another $500. “But afterward they wanted $1,000 more. They went on beating me and my husband and demanding the money. One man would ask my husband: ‘Do you love your wife?’ If he said ‘yes,’ the man would beat him harder…

(Reuters) - Israel has launched a forced repatriation of Eritrean migrants that amounts to a grave violation of their human rights because of the risk of persecution in their reclusive homeland, an advocacy group said on Monday.

The Government of Eritrea did not report prosecuting or convicting any traffickers during the year. Article 605 of the Eritrean Transitional Criminal Code prohibits trafficking in women and young persons for sexual exploitation, which is punishable by up to five years’ imprisonment, or from three to 10 years’ imprisonment if aggravating circumstances are present; these penalties are sufficiently stringent, but not commensurate with punishments prescribed for other serious crimes, such as rape. On the Contrary The regime supports and conaive wityh the traffickers (see UNITED NATIONS: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea )

By Tesfazghi Yitbarek

Notes:

Eritrea Gazzet: Israel deports 14 Eritrean asylum seekers

Reuters: Jeffrey Heller and Mark Heinrich)

Jerusalem Post: “Send Mossad agents to kill the Sinai Beduin”

UNITED NATIONS: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Eritrea