"There is no difference between our blood and blood, we are all human beings," demonstrators in central Rabin Square repeatedly called. According to Israeli media reports, more than 20,000 people participated in protest at centre of coastal city, including numerous migrants.

The Israeli government has announced that it will deport up to 40,000 refugees, mainly from Eritrea and Sudan, to African third countries. By end of March, you will be given opportunity to voluntarily leave with a sum of 2,800 euros. Everyone who is still in country from 1 April threatens prison. Some of m have been in country for years without papers. The plan initially applies to single men who have not yet lodged an application for asylum or whose application has been rejected.

The government, according to its own data, offers you option of entering a third country as an alternative to country of origin. It indirectly recognizes that some migrants cannot be deported to ir home countries because ir lives are in danger.

"We thought that state of Israel was best in our own right," said a fugitive from Sudan on stage. "But Israeli government doesn't want us here." He told how he had been persecuted in Sudan since age of twelve, "because I belonged to wrong tribe." Many of his family members, including his mor, were murdered.

Israel considers refugees, mainly from Eritrea and Sudan, to be illegal immigrants and designates m as "invaders". Asylum applications are only approved in extremely rare cases.

Government must declare itself until Monday

After several organizations complained, Supreme Court stopped plan and set government a deadline of up to Monday to give a detailed legal justification for project. Critics particularly consider planned agreements with third countries to be illegal. The States which are designated as host countries are not yet known. Non-governmental organisations had referred to Rwanda and Uganda, but two countries disown to have made such agreements.

Date Of Update: 26 March 2018, 12:02