African women refugees protest Israeli immigration policies
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A protestor hold up a sign as several hundred African women asylum seekers and their children, who entered Occupied Palestine illegally via Egypt, stage a protest in Tel Aviv, on January 15, 2014, after days of mass protests against #Israel's immigration policies. (Photo: AFP - Jack Guez)
Thousands of African women and children seeking asylum staged a protest march in Tel Aviv Wednesday against the Israel immigration policies, an AFP correspondent said. “We are refugees,” women chanted, many of them carrying infants or pushing prams along the streets of this coastal city where most of them live. Holding placards reading “We need freedom” and “stop racism!” they marched first to the headquarters of the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, then on to the US embassy. read (...)