• African migrants demonstrate in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv on Tuesday against the Israeli government's policy to forcibly deport African refugees and asylum seekers to Rwanda and Uganda. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu canceled an agreement with the U.N. refugee agency on Tuesday aimed at avoiding forced deportations of thousands of African migrants only hours after having announced the deal himself. | AFP-JIJI
    African migrants demonstrate in the Israeli coastal city of Tel Aviv on Tuesday against the Israeli government's policy to forcibly deport African refugees and asylum seekers to Rwanda and Uganda. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu canceled an agreement with the U.N. refugee agency on Tuesday aimed at avoiding forced deportations of thousands of African migrants only hours after having announced the deal himself. | AFP-JIJI

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JERUSALEM – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday he was cancelling an agreement with the U.N. refugee agency to relocate thousands of African migrants, bowing to right-wing pressure to scrap the deal.

The agency, the UNHCR, said it hoped Israel would reconsider the decision soon and offered to work with it to identify and “respond to the protection needs” of asylum seekers in the country.

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