Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has called for reoccupation of the besieged Gaza Strip as Israeli death squads are gearing up for a possible major offensive on the coastal enclave.
Owellian UK BANNED Press TV: The Israeli radio quoted Lieberman as saying on Sunday that it is time for Tel Aviv to decide about fully conquering the coastal region.
His comments come amid reports that the Israeli military is preparing for an all-out war on the impoverished territory
According to some intelligence sources, Israeli armored brigades have been instructed to get ready to join the army’s Gaza Division.
On Saturday, the Israeli regime carried out multiple airstrikes on the central and southern parts of the Gaza Strip, injuring two Palestinians. Another two Palestinians were wounded after Israeli tanks shelled the tiny coastal enclave later.
Meanwhile, in a retaliatory attack, multiple rockets launched from the Gaza Strip landed in southern Israel and wounded several people there. One of the rockets hit a paint factory in the industrial district of the city of Sderot, and set it on fire.
At least another two Palestinians were also killed and several others injured in an Israeli drone strike against on Gaza on Friday.
Gaza has been blockaded since June 2007, a situation that has caused a decline in the standard of living, unprecedented levels of unemployment, and unrelenting poverty.
Over 160 Palestinians, including women and children, were killed and about 1,200 others were injured in Israel’s eight-day offensive on the coastal enclave, which ended on November 21, 2012.
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African immigrants in apartheid Israel hold protest near Egypt border
African immigrants in Israel remain camped out near the Egyptian border in protest to the Tel Aviv regime’s policies on detention and delinquency in granting refugee status.
Owellian UK BANNED Press TV: On Saturday, African asylum seekers spent the night at an outdoor camp near Nitzana border crossing with Egypt in the Israeli Negev Desert.
The development came a day after nearly 1,000 African migrants inside Israel staged a march toward the southern border with Egypt to protest their living conditions at Holot detention facility.
Israeli soldiers stopped the demonstrators, most being from Eritrea and Sudan, nearly 300 meters from the border.
The protesters said in a statement that their march was in protest against their “inhuman and unlimited” detention at the Holot camp, which houses some 2,300 immigrants.
The demonstrators also called on the international community and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to facilitate their immigration to a third country.
In December 2013, the Israeli parliament approved a law allowing officials to keep African migrant workers in detention facilities without trial for one year.
The law also gives Tel Aviv the right to send “illegal immigrants” to complexes called “open facilities” until they are deported or voluntarily go back to their homelands. Migrants kept in the open facilities will have no right to work.
In January, the UNHCR said Israel’s new immigration rules could breach the international law as they enable the indefinite detention of asylum seekers.
Human Rights Watch has also blamed Tel Aviv for using the “threat of prolonged detention” to force the African migrants to give up their asylum claims.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has described the African immigrants as “illegal infiltrators flooding” Israel and threatening the security of Israel.
More than 50,000 African immigrants, mostly from Sudan and Eritrea, currently work in low-paying jobs in Israel.
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His comments come amid reports that the Israeli military is preparing for an all-out war on the impoverished territory
According to some intelligence sources, Israeli armored brigades have been instructed to get ready to join the army’s Gaza Division.
On Saturday, the Israeli regime carried out multiple airstrikes on the central and southern parts of the Gaza Strip, injuring two Palestinians. Another two Palestinians were wounded after Israeli tanks shelled the tiny coastal enclave later.
Meanwhile, in a retaliatory attack, multiple rockets launched from the Gaza Strip landed in southern Israel and wounded several people there. One of the rockets hit a paint factory in the industrial district of the city of Sderot, and set it on fire.
At least another two Palestinians were also killed and several others injured in an Israeli drone strike against on Gaza on Friday.
Gaza has been blockaded since June 2007, a situation that has caused a decline in the standard of living, unprecedented levels of unemployment, and unrelenting poverty.
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African immigrants in apartheid Israel hold protest near Egypt border
African immigrants in Israel remain camped out near the Egyptian border in protest to the Tel Aviv regime’s policies on detention and delinquency in granting refugee status.
The development came a day after nearly 1,000 African migrants inside Israel staged a march toward the southern border with Egypt to protest their living conditions at Holot detention facility.
Israeli soldiers stopped the demonstrators, most being from Eritrea and Sudan, nearly 300 meters from the border.
The protesters said in a statement that their march was in protest against their “inhuman and unlimited” detention at the Holot camp, which houses some 2,300 immigrants.
The demonstrators also called on the international community and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to facilitate their immigration to a third country.
In December 2013, the Israeli parliament approved a law allowing officials to keep African migrant workers in detention facilities without trial for one year.
The law also gives Tel Aviv the right to send “illegal immigrants” to complexes called “open facilities” until they are deported or voluntarily go back to their homelands. Migrants kept in the open facilities will have no right to work.
In January, the UNHCR said Israel’s new immigration rules could breach the international law as they enable the indefinite detention of asylum seekers.
Human Rights Watch has also blamed Tel Aviv for using the “threat of prolonged detention” to force the African migrants to give up their asylum claims.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has described the African immigrants as “illegal infiltrators flooding” Israel and threatening the security of Israel.
More than 50,000 African immigrants, mostly from Sudan and Eritrea, currently work in low-paying jobs in Israel.
Source/video
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