Category: "Personal stories"

Download the full report by clicking here December 2016 Forgotten in Prison: The Prolonged Detention of Migrants by Hotline for Refugees and Migrants – Israel on Scribd

Written by: Adv. Asaf Weitzen For just over three years, I have been working for the Hotline for Refugees and Migrants as a lawyer. Almost throughout this entire period we have been dealing with the Anti-Infiltration Law...

Adam (not his real name), a survivor of the genocide in Darfur, has been living in Israel for nine years. In early 2008 he did not received the temporary residency status all his Darfuri friends received due...

The State of Israel recognized a little over 200 refugees ever since it signed the Refugee Convention in 1954, but none of them are Sudanese nationals. You read it right – Israel hasn’t recognized even one of...

The shootings persisted in villages near homes. More and more people died. There were always bodies on the streets. Bodies everywhere. You cannot help anyone and everyone just wants to escape.

The stories of asylum-seekers detained far away from the Israeli public are rarely brought to light. The Israeli government would like to present them as dangerous “infiltrators” who came to Israel to seek jobs, and not as...