African migrants

Libya says 17 migrants perish at sea, nine missing feared dead

Libya is a transit route for migrants, many from sub-Saharan Africa, fleeing to Europe in the hopes of escaping conflict and poverty.

Migrants aboard an overcrowded boat react as they are approached by the crew of the migrant search and rescue ship Sea-Watch 5, operated by the German NGO Sea-Watch, during a rescue operation in the Search and Rescue (SAR) zone in the central Mediterranean, off Libya, August 11, 2025.
African illegal immigrants wait to board a boat in the southern port city of Aden on September 26, 2016, before being deported to Somalia.

More than 60 migrants die as boat sinks off Yemen, dozens missing

Migration to South America.

Major genomic study reveals humanity's longest prehistoric migration from Africa to South America

 Sub-Saharan African migrants gather in a field where they live, in Jebiniana, Tunisia September 4, 2023.

Hundreds of west African migrants returned from Tunisia through IOM program


The debate over planned deportation of Eritrean and Sudanese nationals

Deporting people against their will to the countries they escaped from evokes strong and disturbing recollections of dark episodes in Jewish history.

AN ASYLUM seeker from Eritrea works on his laptop at his home in south Tel Aviv in 2017.

Rabbis call for more accepting stance to African asylum seekers

Rabbi Hartman: Israel society becoming more xenophobic, calls rejection of asylum seekers embarrassing

African migrants take part in a protest against Israel's detention policy toward them

African migrants and Israelis protest deportations in Jerusalem

Several Israelis attending the protest said it was inhumane to send "the refugees back to the horrors they ran from."

African migrants and Israelis protest deportations in Jerusalem

Deputy health minister slams doctors' letter on migrants' 'voluntary departure'

In a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Litzman rejected the doctors’ claim that sending the migrants home was “among the most serious harms against mankind.”

African migrants sit at the Holot open detention center in the Negev in Southern Israel

Gov't in recruiting drive ahead of mass African asylum seeker deportation

The civilian inspectors will exclusively work for two years to identify and expel approximately 38,000 Eritrean and Sudanese asylum seekers.

African migrants take part in a protest against Israel's detention policy toward them

Population and Immigration Authority threatened over migrant deportation

Red paint was splattered across the doorway to the downtown Tel Aviv office with notes that read “It will not pass quietly, it’s only the beginning,” and “Their blood is on your hands."

Severed heads and red paint are found outside the entrance the Ministry of Economy office in Tel Aviv, January 2018

Hundreds of US rabbis sign letter against Israel’s migrant deportation

"We Jews know far too well what happens when the world closes its doors to those forced to flee their homes.”

African migrants gesture behind a fence during a protest against Israel's detention policy towards them

El Al pilots beseech int'l counterparts to refuse to fly refugees to Africa

"We are witnessing an unprecedented wave of protest by citizens from all walks of life."

African refugees hold up placades during a demonstatration on the streets of Tel Aviv, Israel

The Zionist Rx - Welcome 'infiltrators' as Israelis

Demonizing Israel’s 36,000 African asylum seekers and expelling them doesn’t behoove a Jewish state, created as a refuge for Jews who have been called “dirty,” “sneaky,” “filthy,” undesirable.”

An African migrant wears a T-shirt with a Hebrew phrase referring to the Holocaust," I promise to remember... and never forget!" in south Tel Aviv July 17, 2013.

US Jewish groups call on Netanyahu to stop deportation of African migrants

The ADL and HIAS say the plan to pay countries to take African migrants betrays Jewish values.

AFRICAN MIGRANTS being held at the Holot detention center in the Negev demonstrate last month for better conditions.