Israel's Interior Ministry on Monday released nine Eritrean women and 10 children, ranging from 18 months to 7-years-old, who had been held at Saharonim Detention Center in the south of the country for the last 8-12 months under the Prevention of Infiltration Law.
The Interior Ministry’s Population, Immigration and Border Authority approved the release after the Be’er Sheva District Court, sitting as the Administrative Affairs Court, ordered that another detained mother and her two daughters be freed.
Be'er Sheva Court President Judge Joseph Elon accepted an appeal to detention by the Hotline for Migrant Workers, which was representing the migrant family, and ruled that the fact that those being held in detention were minors was sufficient humanitarian grounds for ordering their release.
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