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Video: Refugees march to the Israeli-Egyptian border

Israeli police have prevented a desert protest march by hundreds of African migrants who bolted a detention center
African refugees in Israel are calling for international help (MEE/ Andrea DiCenzo)

Oren Ziv and Yotam Ronen have been following closely the African refugees’ march to the Israeli-Egyptian border, calling on the international community to intervene against their imprisonment in Holot detention centre. They are asking to be let into Egypt, or to be offered another reasonable solution to their detention. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ld-9mcmo1rc

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