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Last update - 15:20 30/11/2007
Prisons Service: No more space to absorb Sudanese refugees
By Mijal Grinberg, Haaretz Correspondent
The Israel Prison Service warned Friday that it would
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Sudanese refugees at a lecture at Tel Aviv University in October (Dan Keinan) |
be unable to accomodate the growing number of detained Sudanese refugees, since facilities designated specifically for their absorption are nearly filled to capacity.
Prison officials said that, at the current rate, all space would be filled by next week.
The statement comes on the heels of an incident early Thursday in which the Israel Defense Forces deserted a group of 15 Sudanese refugees on the Be'er Sheva-Dimona Highway. The army had been transporting the refugees to Soroka Hospital in Be'er Sheva for medical treatment.
The refugees were then spotted by a family in Ar'ara, and four of them - all men without families - found work in the Arad area. Three refugee families were subsequently taken to Eilat.
The IDF issued a response saying that the refugees were deserted because no authorized institution had agreed to accept them. Their initial destination in which they were to be given shelter was the Ketziot Prison, but the soldiers were informed the prison did not have room to accomodate them.
Prison officials replied that 950 Sudanese refugees are currently being cared for in Ketziot Prison, and that they are unaware of anyone denying an IDF request to house additional refugees.
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Sudanese refugees in Jerusalem last month. (Tess Scheflan / BauBau)
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