Egyptian police shoot Eritrean trying to cross border into Israel
Migrant, 24, shot in the thigh, later dies of wounds; at least 3 others shot dead trying to enter Israel in 2007.
By Reuters Tags: Egypt Israel policeEgyptian police shot dead an Eritrean trying to illegally enter Israel overnight, a security source said on Saturday.
Police shot Henna Mohammed Mohammed, 24, in the thigh as he tried to cross into Israel south of Rafah, disregarding police orders to stop. He later died of his wound, the source said.
Egypt's eastern border is the scene of frequent attempts by Egyptians and foreigners to cross into Israel to smuggle goods or search for work. Police have opened fire at many of the migrants and had previously killed at least on Sudanese, one Eritrean, and one Turk this year.
Last week, hundreds of people, including refugees, their Israeli supporters and human rights activists, took part in a march in Tel Aviv on Friday to protest the state's treatment of refugees and to demand they receive education, health care, welfare and other social benefits.
The march began on Rothschild Boulevard and ended outside the Cinematheque with a "protest carnival," partially aimed at illustrating the social and cultural wealth the refugees bring to Israel.
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Ah yes, the silence is deafening when Muslim soldiers from an Arab country repeatedly shoot and kill unarmed refugees in cold blood. Hello, Amnesty, HRW? Are you out there? Are you paying attention? Probably not, since Israel is not involved in violating the rights of this dead refugee, so there's no news in it anywhere else in the world except, apparently for Israel. My my, where are the Islamic talkbackers and clickfools today? Nothing to say because an Egyptian soldier (not an Israeli) murdered an Eritrean Muslim (and not a Palestinian)? Will any of those talkbackers who take Israeli to task over human rights issues now go to protest outside of the Egyptian embassy? Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm assuming the answer is no.
an illustration of the amount of hate used by the neo-socialists posters here and elsewhere toward the Jewish state because it is Jewish?
... and do the Zionist right a favour.
REFUGEES!!!! IS THE WHITE HOUSE SLEEPING????? STOP GIVING MUBAREK THE DICTATOR MONEY!!