Israel to put thousands of Africans in detention camp

Israel’s interior minister said yesterday he hoped to soon start moving tens of thousands of illegal African migrants from Tel Aviv and elsewhere to a detention camp being built and a planned “tent city”. An Israeli court cleared the way on Thursday for the deportation of an estimated 1,500 South Sudanese, after ruling that their lives were no longer threatened in their homeland. Interior Minister Eli Yishai told public radio 40,000 Sudanese and Eritreans were next in his sights. “There are still about 15,000 from north Sudan and some 35,000 from Eritrea,” he said. “I am not allowed to get them out at the moment.” He said he expected legal obstacles would be removed.