{"id":5140,"date":"2026-03-19T14:10:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/assaf.org.il\/?p=5140"},"modified":"2026-03-25T16:54:33","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T14:54:33","slug":"israel-arrests-and-plans-to-deport-ethiopian-asylum-seekers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/assaf.org.il\/en\/israel-arrests-and-plans-to-deport-ethiopian-asylum-seekers\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel arrests and plans to deport Ethiopian asylum seekers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-field-subhead\" style=\"direction: ltr;\">Israel intends to deport 8,000 Ethiopians from April, according to aid organization<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div style=\"direction: ltr;\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/countries\/israel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Israel<\/a>\u00a0has begun arresting Ethiopian asylum seekers and plans to deport those already in detention next month, civil society sources have told Middle East Eye.<\/p>\n<p>Starting on 17 April, Israel\u2019s Population and Immigration Authority will act on a January 2024 government decision and deport all Ethiopian asylum seekers from Israel, Haaretz\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.haaretz.co.il\/news\/education\/2026-03-16\/ty-article\/.premium\/0000019c-f529-df50-a9de-f7b9afd40000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>\u00a0on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>News of the planned deportation comes after several human rights groups petitioned Israel\u2019s supreme court to block the move, which initially delayed government action.<\/p>\n<p>Israel&#8217;s supreme court has backed the state\u2019s position and will allow it to deport the asylum seekers, who are not Jewish, back to Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are approximately 8,000 Ethiopian nationals that Israel intends to deport, about 1,000 of whom are from the Tigray region,\u201d Gilad Palombo, the public advocacy director for Assaf, an aid organisation for refugees and asylum seekers in Israel, told Middle East Eye.<\/p>\n<p>The war in the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray broke out in 2020 between government forces and the Tigray People\u2019s Liberation Front (TPLF).<\/p>\n<p>More than\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/40399978\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">100,000 people<\/a>\u00a0were killed during the conflict, and while the war officially ended with a peace agreement in 2022, fighting has continued sporadically and fears of a return to all-out war are ever present.<\/p>\n<p>Palombo said that the Population and Immigration Authority, an interior ministry body that regulates the residency and employment of foreigners in Israel, has already begun arresting Ethiopians that Israel accuses of being \u201cinfiltrators\u201d, a specific legal term used to label people who enter the country illegally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs long as Ethiopian nationals are not granted group protection status, they are not allowed to work. Several dozen have been arrested so far, some of whom have already been released,\u201d Palombo told MEE, referring to Ethiopian asylum seekers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe intention is to deport them as soon as it becomes possible\u2026 the state of Israel plans to send them back to Ethiopia,\u201d Palombo said.<\/p>\n<p>Palombo said that several human rights organisations had filed an inquiry with the court on whether the state would allow some endangered individuals to stay in Israel, but that he was not optimistic about its chances.<\/p>\n<h3>Death and displacement in Ethiopia<\/h3>\n<p>In mid-2025, the UN\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/crisisresponse.iom.int\/response\/ethiopia-crisis-response-plan-2026%C2%A0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">estimated<\/a>\u00a0that at least 3.3 million people were internally displaced in Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p>As fighting and instability continue in the Ethiopian regions of Amhara, Oromia, Benishangul-Gumuz and Tigray, civilians have faced a humanitarian crisis, Human Rights Watch (HRW)\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/world-report\/2026\/country-chapters\/ethiopia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>\u00a0in a report last year.<\/p>\n<p>Bazi Gete, an Ethiopian-Israeli writer and filmmaker, told MEE that after the ceasefire in Tigray, \u201cthere was supposedly a return to normalcy, but in reality, this area remains cut off from other parts of Ethiopia\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Gete added that if they are deported, the 8,000 Ethiopian asylum seekers living in Israel will face acute danger, as they will be \u201creturning to a kind of no man\u2019s land.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe deportation of Ethiopians from Israel will harm them on multiple levels,\u201d Gete said. \u201cIt depends on whether they are regime opponents, but some of them may face real danger to their lives, while others risk detention.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed began his time in office by releasing political prisoners and lifting bans on opposition groups.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, after just a year in the job, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, with his determination to resolve a longstanding border conflict with neighbouring Eritrea garnering special mention.<\/p>\n<p>But soon after, Abiy launched the war in Tigray, and since then repression at home in Ethiopia has grown, with the government committing a slew of human rights violations and embarking on campaigns of mass censorship.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia has, under Abiy, moved decisively into the orbit of the United Arab Emirates, and has been drawn into the UAE\u2019s supply of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group in Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>A landlocked country that has long sought access to the sea, Ethiopia is once again seriously considering an invasion of Eritrea, with the Red Sea port of Assab a particular flashpoint.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of them would be returning to a region in severe economic distress,\u201d Gete said of the Ethiopian asylum seekers Israel is planning to deport. \u201cThey will have to depend on outside assistance and whatever savings they have managed to accumulate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Palombo agreed with Gete regarding the serious dangers facing Ethiopian asylum seekers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn some areas there is ongoing fighting and famine as a result,\u201d he said, adding that the Tigray region \u201cis very dangerous, with reports indicating particular risk for women and children.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Israel&#8217;s longstanding deportation policy<\/h3>\n<p>According to Assaf, some 72,000 asylum seekers live legally in Israel, of whom 50,000 live under a \u201cprotected group\u201d status.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the asylum seekers living in Israel under this status come from Eritrea, Sudan and Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The 8,000 Ethiopian asylum seekers marked for deportation and 14,000 refugees from several different countries live in Israel without the state recognising them as a \u201cprotected group\u201d, and so are considered to be in the country illegally.<\/p>\n<p>All asylum seekers and refugees in Israel are living under harsh legal and economic restrictions, according to Assaf.<\/p>\n<p>Whether living in Israel legally or illegally, they \u201care excluded from most welfare services, public healthcare, and any basic social safety net,\u201d the group said in a report.<\/p>\n<p>Fifty-seven percent of asylum seekers live in poverty, Assaf said, while 85 percent are facing food insecurity, and many suffer from extreme food insecurity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe policy of interior ministers over the past 20 years has been to make life in Israel unbearable for asylum seekers,\u201d Palombo told MEE.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis policy has been in place since refugees first arrived here from Africa in 2006,\u201d Palombo said, adding that \u201cthe aim is to encourage &#8216;voluntary emigration&#8217;.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Between 2013 and 2018, Israel had a deal with Rwanda whereby it deported asylum seekers \u2013 mostly from Sudan and Eritrea &#8211; 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