The Guardian | 02.01.2017
Rights groups condemn plan to return those who entered Israel illegally and who do not have a refugee application pending
Peter Beaumont
Israel is set to inform thousands of Africans who entered the country illegally that they have three months to leave or face indefinite imprisonment.
The decision, opposed by rights groups, follows months of speculation over the future of both the migrants and the Holot detention facility in the Negev desert, which the government says it intends to close.
There has been often heated debate about the presence of around 40,000 African migrants in Israel, many from Eritrea and Sudan.