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News on migration and asylum from around the region - Nouvelles de la région sur les questions de migration et d'asile

Monday, August 13, 2012

[Egypt/Israel]: Egypt Independent - Israeli soldiers preemptively arrest African migrants in Egyptian territory

10.08.2012. “The catching of the three [infiltrators] occurred in the early morning, a few tens of meters from the border, inside the Egyptian territory. We guarded the three a few hours and afterwards we marched them along the border, on the Egyptian side, a few kilometers until the point where we were supposed to hand them to the Egyptian forces,” an Israeli reserve duty soldier wrote in an affidavit received by Israeli attorney Anat Ben-Dor, who works on migrant issues, on 27 July 2012.