High Court to Israeli NGO: State does not have to address partial acceptance of African migrants

Court strikes down petition by the human rights group We Are Refugees geared at making Israel accept a group of Eritreans that were trapped near its border with Egypt last week, saying it is irrelevant since migrants are no longer there.

By Tomer Zarchin and Talila Nesher | 17:05 09.09.12 |

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The High Court of Justice yesterday struck down a petition by an Israeli human rights group seeking to bring into Israel 21 Eritrean migrants who were trapped for more than a week near Israel’s border with Egypt in Sinai.

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Palestine must accept them!
- By Ivan
- 09 Sep 2012
- 07:48PM
To show more humanity than Israel.
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