Netanyahu scraps UN deal to resettle African asylum seekers

Asylum seekers outside an Israeli detention centre

Asylum seekers outside an Israeli detention centre Source: AAP

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


Italian journalist Michele Giorgio reports from Jerusalem.


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