Frightened African Asylum Seekers Allegedly Not Given Missile Safety Information

African asylum seekers in Tel Aviv – almost all of whom are legally refugees under international law but who have not been treated as such by Israel  – reportedly say they have not received instructions on what to do when missile alert sirens sound, and those African asylum seekers who have been imprisoned in detention centers in the south of the country not far from Gaza say the instructions they were given are unclear and the fortified rooms they are supposed to use are often locked during attacks so they cannot enter them.

 

Frightened African Asylum Seekers Allegedly Not Given Missile Safety Information
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com

As missile warning sirens sound across Israel, tens of thousands of African asylum seekers have allegedly been left confused and alone, without information from the government on what to do to protect themselves and their families, Ha’aretz reported.

These African asylum seekers in Tel Aviv – almost all of whom are legally refugees under international law but who have not been treated as such by Israel  – reportedly say they have not received instructions on what to do when missile alert sirens sound, and those African asylum seekers who have been imprisoned in detention centers in the south of the country not far from Gaza say the instructions they were given are unclear and the fortified rooms they are supposed to use are often locked during attacks so they cannot enter them.

Outside of the detention centers, the main problem seems to be a lack of instructions African languages.

“This is a new experience for us. Like everyone else, we’re frightened when bombs go off, but we don’t know what to do when the siren is heard. We’ve received no help from the authorities. During the day the children are in kindergarten where there’s a protected space, but later we’re all at home. We didn’t know we had to go out to the stairwell. Now a friend told me that when the alarm sounds we have to go to the stairwell, but we haven’t received any official instructions on what to do,” Gabriel Sekela, a refugee from Eritrea, told Ha’aretz adding that “We saw there was information from the army on Facebook in Tigrinya [spoken by many Eritreans] and spread it, but I don’t know how many people got it.”

In the Holot detention center in the Negev near the boarder with Egypt and Gaza, prison authorities reportedly posted instructions in Arabic. But that hasn’t eliminated the problems.

“There are small protected rooms but often during the sirens they are locked. They call out instructions through megaphones but only in Hebrew, not very clearly, and not everyone understands. Before the siren they held a drill but not many people took part. I told the guard that I heard a drill had been held but the protected rooms aren’t open. He said it was only a drill and isn’t important,” Sadik, an asylum seeker from Sudan, told the paper.

The Israel Prison Service denies those claims, calling them “groundless.”

“[Those] claims are groundless.…The Holot center was planned for emergency situations with numerous protected rooms in every part. During an alarm, instructions are given on loudspeakers in Hebrew, English and Tigrinya. Before this operation we held several drills and the Home Front Command’s instructions are posted on the notice boards. No rockets were fired in this direction and we had only one false alarm, but the facilities are prepared for any scenario. The protected rooms are usually locked up…and when an alarm sounds the prison guards nearby unlock them and let the internees in,” the prison service said.

The City of Tel Aviv municipality also denied that it wasn’t properly informing African asylum seekers of what to do when sirens sound.

“Every municipal service such as protection, evacuation and assistance, if needed, will be given any person in the city’s jurisdiction,” the city reportedly said in a statement, adding that it provides these asylum seekers it calls migrants and infiltrators with details on what to do in an emergency and said it plans on distributing leaflets with this information in Hebrew, Arabic, English and Tigrinya sometime in the next few days – several days after missile warning began sounding in Tel Aviv.

Comments

[Mordy from monsey]

Not only are they In Israel illegaly, but to actually have complaints against the State of Israel allegedly not giving them missile info is beyond chutzpah... It's not bad enough that they are contributing to the crime rates in Tel Aviv, assaulting citizens?? If they aren't happy with the way they treated, they can just go back from where they came from...i know..I know...Im so unsympathetic...Ya...Ya...Blah Blah Blah...
The bottom line is, you break the rules, you eneter the country illegally, the least you can do is shut the F*** up...
Is that asking too much?

[Shmarya]

Mordy –

Funny how when halakha and the Torah mandate being kind to people who are strangers, people like you act like fascist bigots and think you're being truly Jewish at the same time.

When you look at all the tzuris Jews have suffered over the years while being refugees, and at the same time how nice some countries were to us, for you to act this way is shameful.

[Mordy from monsey]

Shmarya-

There is one small difference Jewish refugees were law abiding and proved to be assets to their host countries. These African asylum seekers are guilty of crimes and you don't have to believe me. Ask the residents if tel aviv who line in fear. So before you call me a fascist bigot , please extend the courtesy to explain myself.

[Shmarya]

Mordy –

Oh, please.

Ever hear of Arnold Rothstein, Bugsy Siegal, Meyer Lansky, Abe Reles, and dozens more? Or London's east end Jewish toughs? There were – and are – lots of Jewish criminals, and pre-WW2, a number of them were criminals.

The gang of Jewish human trafficker-pimps based in Argentina during the late 1800s through the 1930s?

And then we have the Russian Mob in the US today, which has a number of Jews who came her as refugees involved.

You're a racist bigot and, like is so often true with you, you don't even know basic facts.

[Malka]

Shmarya, being kind to strangers is interpreted as being kind to other Jews not the world and his dog who want to come and live in Israel. Perhaps, now the Africans will understand what Israeli is dealing with and that Israel doesn't have the resources and money to take in masses of humanity who are nothing to do with the State of Israel.

[Mordy from monsey]

Shmarya-

Rothstein.Bugsy,Lansky were children of immigrants, not refugees like you claim. They were gangsters involved in illegal money gains and at worst might have killed other mob members as a consequence...Are you actually comparing
"refugees" that are for the most unruly and commit the kind of crimes such as RAPE,rOBBERY,seXUAL ASSAULTS ETC..tHE eTRONIANS ARE ILLEGAL...jEWS FOR THE MOST PART CAME OVER WITH visas etc..
You are a self hating Jew,like is so often, it blinds your basic sense of judgement

[Shmarya]

You're an ignoramus, Mordy.

Almost all of them were immigrants who came as children.

And the Russian mob? The Argentinian human traffickers?

As for violence, Siegel and Lansky ran a street gang on the Lower East Side and lived by beating people up and extortion. They graduated into more "elegant" crimes when prohibition was instituted.

As for African asylum seekers in Israel, are some criminals? Yes. Are criminals the majority of the asylum seekers. Not at all.

But for a racist bigot like you, facts don't matter.

[Shmarya]

Malka –

I know Chabad taught you this, but it is false.

[Franklin Clinton]

They are not refugees, they are economic migrants!

,basically they are 18-45 men who left. their countries in a search for a better life.

An Ethiopian c-worker (very hot) explanied it to me:

There are so many Muslim countries closer to them and easier to get than Israel but they choose Israel.

You do not see women crossing the border only men.

Real refugees takes their families with them..

If you want to see real refugees watch the refugees from Syria to Turkey who left Syria with their families.

The real atrocious issues with the Africa migrants is that because they do not have many women with them they rape the Filipinas in South Tel Aviv and rob their hard earning money and the Israeli police is doing nothing about it.

[Shmarya]

Oh, please.

Many of these asylum seekers are women and children.

And for the umpteenth time, almost all of them are refugees under international law.

You are sick, racist bigot.

[RabbiEML]

Shmarya aka Scottie, now become an expert in International Law as well. Shmarya's monument will be huge, sorry that spiritually he died a while ago.

[Malka]

I don't follow Chabad what I said is standard Orthodox Judaism.

As for the African refugees, they travelled through other countries before reaching Israel so why didn't they seek refuge there if their lives were in peril? It's because they want to live a better life in a westernised country. Whilst understandable, it doesn't mean Israel is obligated to absorb them. Why din't the refugees stay in Egypt, since they passed through to reach Israel ? They are Muslims and Egypt is a Muslim country.

[Mordy from monsey]

Shmarya is the know it all...He gets the statistics from the interior ministry...he is so full of shit, he cant recognize IT ANYMORE..You can call me a racist bigot all you want..Im comfortable with that , since you know nothing about me...But your loathing self Jewish hatred must be horrible to live with..No wonder you still live with Mommy at your age in a basement..Get a life Shmarya and stop besmirching others on your search...

There is a very special place in hell for your kind.

All the best!!

[Malka]

Just imagine if the State of Israel was 'kind' and took in 10 thousand Muslim Africans, then another 50,000 turned up wanting rights and before you know it there were a million of them. Israel would look like a third world slum with no Jewish character. Is that what you want Shamarya?

[Mordy from monsey]

Shmarya-

You probably don't have a problem with the thousands of children flooding the US borders too I bet...They aren't refugess..They just want to enter the US illegaly for the benefits and great life this great country has to offer..You are probably an advocate of open borders because you hate this country like all the progressive liberals do...The African asylum seekers are in the same boat, They aren't being prosecuted ( like the Jews were in WW2) and they certainly had many other countries to flee too..The fact is you hate Israel and anything even remotely Jewish, so to flood the country with Etronians and Sudanese whereby the Jewish character of the country gets lost is Utopia for you...But Im the racist....You on the other hand are a rabid anti-semite..Shame on you and your kind..

[Franklin Clinton]

When the facts are not on your side you curse and whine like a little bitch.

You can check for yourself that over 90% of the infiltrators are men. I do not know what are your credentials in International Law but I am sure they did not teach you that in the BT yeshiva you went to.

Malka,.

he also called me Chabbad and I am not even an Orthodox.

Shmarya,

Let me give you the two best advice you got this year:

(1) you do one thing well and that reporting on and exposing Haredi shenanigans (God Bless You for that!) so stick to that and stop to give commentaries about things you know nothing about.

(2) Drag your 300 pounds of shmaltz to the nearest Crossfit and beg them to accept you, before diabetics, heart disease and cancer start to creep in

[Shmarya]

Oh, please.

You're a bigot and racist as your previous comments on this issue show. And you're also dishonest.

The facts are that the overwhelming maroity of these asylum seekers are refugees under international law.

Every NGO that has looked at this says so. Every one.

They're not refugees legally because Israel is not following the refugee treaty it signed and isn't processing applications – as has been widely reported.

Many of these asylum seekers are men, but many others are women and child – also facts widely reported.

Stop lying you racist POS.

As for Malka's claim, as I noted above Chaabd – which she is part of – teaches that "stranger" only means "Jew."

However, if you actually look at this issue in rishonim and other commentators, you'll see that's far from clear, and many sources hold that "stranger" means "stranger."

Now toddle off.

[Shmarya]

Malka –

First of all, the same argument was used by lots of countries to deny or extremely limit entry to Jews – America in the 1920s and 30s, Canada in the 1920s and 30s, most of Western Europe in the 1920s and 30s, most of Latin America in the 1920s and 30s, etc., are all good examples.

Past that, those African refugees who have made it to Israel must be given refugee status. Israel signed an international treaty requiring it.

No one is asking Israel to take in millions of African asylum seekers. It's being asked to be humane and legal to the 50,000 who are already there.

[Shmarya]

As for you, Mordy, you are beneath contempt.

[Shmarya]

Malka –

I know who you are and claiming you are not Chabad is a lie.

As to why they didn't seek refuge in other countries, a large number tried to do so in Egypt but were persecuted there.

[Mordy from monsey]

If speaking the truth and outing the haters of Judaism is beneath contempt, then it is a Badge I shall wear with honor!!

[Shmarya]

Mordy –

All you're doing is lying and being a racist bigot.