Hundreds of African refugees launch hunger strike in Israeli prison
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Israeli policemen and immigration officers raid a protest camp set up by African asylum seekers near a border crossing with Egypt in the Negev Desert on June 29, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Oren Ziv) Israeli policemen and immigration officers raid a protest camp set up by African asylum seekers near a border crossing with Egypt in the Negev Desert on June 29, 2014. (Photo: AFP - Oren Ziv)
Hundreds of jailed African refugees began a hunger strike on Monday after Israeli police violently broke up a sit-in they were staging along the Egyptian border and arrested them. Around 1,000 Africans, mostly from Eritrea and Sudan, had marched Friday to the border and set up a makeshift camp to protest against their “inhumane and unlimited” (...)