Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel would comply with international law when it deports African migrants.
“Regarding the migrant issue, Prime Minister Netanyahu agreed with
President Kagame, who made clear that he would only accept a process
that fully complies with international law,” Netanyahu’s office said in a
statement Wednesday, after Netanyahu met with Paul Kagame, the Rwandan
president, in Davos, Switzerland, where the World Economic Forum is
taking place.
Netanyahu has said he plans to give the close-to-40,000 African
refugees currently in Israel a choice of jail or deportation to an
African country he has yet to name. Reports have said the countries are
Rwanda and Uganda, but both countries have denied it. Wednesday’s
statement was the first on the record indication from Israel that Rwanda
was one of the designated countries.
Israel has ratified the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of
Refugees, which does not oblige countries to accept asylum seekers, but
obliges countries not to force them to be in danger.
Some 20,000 African migrants have over recent years voluntarily
accepted Israeli offers to travel to African countries with $3,5000
cash. Some of these have reported facing robbery, harassment, kidnapping
and worse once they have landed.
Major U.S. Jewish organizations have urged Netanyahu not to go ahead
with the plan to force the migrants to choose between jail and
deportation.
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