Ethiopian migrant shot on Egyptian-Israeli border
Man sustains wounds, tells police he and companions paid smugglers $1,000 dollars each to cross the border.
By DPA Tags: smuggling tunnel Egypt Israel newsEgyptian border guards shot and wounded an Ethiopian man as he tried to cross illegally into Israel, police said Saturday.
The 20-year-old was trying to cross the border with a group of other migrants from several African countries when border guards ordered them to stop. When the group failed to do so, police said, a border guard shot the Ethiopian man in the foot.
The man was taken to hospital in al-Arish, on Egypt's border with the Gaza Strip.
The rest of the Ethiopian's party escaped into the Sinai desert, police said, adding that the wounded man had told them that he and the others in his group had paid $1,000 each to smugglers in exchange for help crossing the border into Israel.
Residents of towns near Egypt's border with Israel, which stretches along 250 kilometers of desert, said they had noticed tighter security and heavier police presence along the border in recent days.
The shootings on the border have repeatedly drawn condemnation from international human rights groups.
"Attempted border crossings are not a capital offense," said Joe Stork, associate Mideast director at the New York-based rights group Human Rights Watch, after border guards killed four migrants on the border on September 9.
The London-based watchdog Amnesty International says nearly 40 migrants have been killed trying to cross into Israel from Egypt since 2008. Israeli groups say thousands more have succeeded in crossing illegally.
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egypt they drink ethiopian water and now they start killing us .one day they`ll get there hand...
In my experience, an Arab will talk to you for hours on end about the mistreatment of Palestinians by Israel. And yet they too are flatly raciest who doesn't consider an African as co-equal. And this never ending border shooting over defenseless immigrants is a manifestation of this Arab racism. The most astonishing thing is why did the immigrants were allowed to travel all the way to the border with Israel?? In the first place, couldn't they be caught in the port of entry to Egypt. As Amnesty reported, the death of 40 human beings are too many! The UN needs to look into the problem.......
Just keep away from it and you are safe. Illegal is illegal.Borders must be respected and defended against all kind of illegal activities especialy in Israel that has been under threats of annihilation for more than 60 years. He was shot because he did not stop as asked to do.Sad,but that is how it works on the borders. Stop the war against Israel so Israel can apply borders of Europe style Ari.
Israel must take care of this problem if its not to late already.