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Israel announces deal on asylum seekers, suspends it

Asylum seekers outside an Israeli detention centre

African migrants spend time outside the ground of the Holot detention facility near Nitzana in the Negev Desert in Israel, 06 March 2018. Source: AAP

Israel has suspended an apparent agreement to resettle thousands of African asylum seekers in the West only hours after announcing the deal with the United Nations.



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