Asylum seekers

Police arrest six minors, one Israeli suspect in gang-affiliated Tel Aviv bus assault

Police have announced that all suspects will be brought before the court today for hearings on extending their detention.

 Buses in central Jerusalem, February 12, 2025
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Asylum seeker to launch podcast to explore African refugee experiences in Israel and beyond

 Austrian Interior Minister Gerhard Karner speaks next to Carinthia's Governor Peter Kaiser, Günther Albel, mayor of the town of Villach and Carinthia's Police Chief Michaela Kohlweiss at a press conference outside a police station in the town of Villach, February 16, 2025.

Deadly Austria attack: suspect swore allegiance to IS, had IS flag

African asylum seekers line up to apply for a visa in Bnei Brak, Israel

Asylum seekers were victims of Oct. 7. Israel's gov't must do more to support them - opinion


Jewish boy beaten in Rome by homeless Egyptian asylum seeker

Security footage published by police shows the suspect lunging at the shopkeeper, attempting to overhand stab him with the glass shards.

 Asylum seeker from Egypt attacks shopkeeper in Rome, Italy.

14 years in limbo: A journey from Darfur to building a life in Israel

After fleeing war in Darfur, Mahmoud Usman spent 14 years in limbo seeking asylum in Israel. Now, with his application approved, he looks ahead to building his future.

 POPULATION AND Immigration Authority data place the current asylum-seeking population at 30,000, with an estimated 4,000 from Usman’s home country, Sudan. An additional 19,000 asylum-seekers are from neighboring Eritrea.

Austria offers Syrian refugees 1,000 euros to return home

Austria's government has said it will focus on voluntary deportations. It has also stopped processing Syrians' asylum applications, as have more than a dozen European countries.

 REBELS LED by HTS capitalize on their swift takeover of Aleppo in northern Syria and Hama in the west-central region by pressing onward to Homs, in Hama, last Friday. Having pounded anti-Assad factions for years, Russia cannot expect accommodation from HTS, say the writers.

UN refugee chief tells countries to drop ineffective border controls

Addressing more than 100 diplomats and ministers in Geneva at UNHCR's annual meeting, Filippo Grandi said an unprecedented 123 million people are displaced around the world.

 Crew members of the Geo Barents migrant rescue ship, operated by Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders), distribute life jackets to a group of 61 migrants on a boat during a rescue operation in international waters off the coast of Libya in the central Mediterranean Sea September, 2023.

Ruach Hadash: Volunteer clinic in Haifa serves asylum-seeking refugees

The project is the brainchild of the Technion Faculty of Medicine as a means of teaching medical students a more holistic approach to treating patients.

 Artie Jacobowitz, a volunteer biomedical equipment engineer.

Syrian human smuggler has refugee status claim rejected by German court

After being denied status, the man appealed to the Higher Administrative Court, who ruled that the situation in Hasaka, where he is from, posed no personal danger to him.

 Turkey-Syria Barrier, on the left is the Autonomous Administration of North East Syria (AANES).

UK grants Arab Israeli asylum due to 'well-founded fear' of 'apartheid'

The Arab Israeli claimed that Israel maintains an "apartheid system of racial control by its Jewish citizens over its Palestinian citizens."

 People demonstrate on the day of a vote on the motion calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, in London, Britain, February 21, 2024.

EU border agency says stopping migration is impossible

Those fleeing wars have the right to asylum in the EU, which has sheltered millions of Ukrainians fleeing Russia's invasion since 2022.

A German police officer holds wristbands used to tag suspected illegal migrants after they were detained by German police during their patrol along the German-Polish border to prevent illegal migration, in Forst, Germany, September 20, 2023.

LGBTQ+ Palestinians can request asylum in Israel, court rules

The Population Authority's position is that all Palestinians are not subject to the UN's Refugee Convention.

Thousands take part in the annual Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem, on June 1, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

Pakistan's National Airline faces crisis as yet another flight attendant vanishes into Canada

Pakistan International Airlines flight attendants have been failing to report back after landing in Toronto, and while some blame low salaries and fear of privatization, the airline blames Canada.

 A Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) passenger plane prepares to take off from the Benazir International airport in Islamabad, Pakistan, February 9, 2016.

Eritreans arrested in Tel Aviv knife brawl, one asylum seeker killed

Fifteen asylum seekers were arrested by police for involved in a suspect knife brawl in which 10 Eritreans were injured.

Police guard while Eritrean asylum seekers who oppose the regime in Eritrea protest outside a conference of regime supporters in south Tel Aviv, September 2, 2023