(5 May 2023)
ISRAEL SUDAN MIGRANTS
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Tel Aviv, Israel - 30 April 2023
1. Various of migrants in Tel Aviv
2. Establisher shot of Omer Easa, Sudanese migrant
3. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Omer Easa, Sudanese migrant:
"I am concerned for all Sudanese, and we have been worried for many years. I do not know where my country is headed, but I hope this war will end and the generals and military will step away from the political system. I hope there will be a clearer path towards elections, and people can be chosen in a more legitimate way, without anyone saying 'I deserve to be the prime minister, and I will stage a revolt.'"
4. Mid of Easa talking to Sigal Rozen (screen-right), public policy director at Hotline for Refugees and Migrants
5. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Omer Easa, Sudanese migrant:
"I try to speak with them (family), but there's been no reception these days. However, we hear the news. Militias are robbing people's homes and stores. It has become a situation where anyone with a weapon leaves their house, fires randomly, takes whatever they want, and robs wherever they go - whether it's banks or anything else. There is no police, no security, nothing."
6. Various of migrants walking in park
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Sigal Rozen, public policy director at the Hotline for Refugees and Migrants:
"The Sudanese here are very much disturbed by what is happening in Sudan, not because of them, because of their family members and relatives who remain behind, and they are worried about them. That's the first thing. And the second things is that every once in a while we hear again and again decision-makers in Israel claiming that there is no problem returning the Sudanese back to Sudan. And of course, they are disturbed because of that as well."
8. Tilt up from documents to Rozen
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Sigal Rozen, public policy director at the Hotline for Refugees and Migrants:
"If the legal revolution will pass, for sure, they will be in a much greater risk. I am still hopeful that it will not pass. Many Sudanese feel completely torn apart between their fear about the situation in Sudan and their fear about the situation here in Israel. And they see deterioration both in Sudan and in Israel. And I think that makes them feel even worse."
10. Rozen talking to Easa
11. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Omer Easa, Sudanese migrant:
"On the one hand, the years that have passed haven’t been easy, and we often live here thanks to the grace of the Supreme Court. I hope the court will continue to be active and protect minority rights, as it has done so far."
12. End shot of street in Tel Aviv
STORYLINE:
Omer Easa is watching the violence roiling his native Sudan with deep trepidation.
The further Sudan sinks into chaos and violence, he fears, the longer he is likely to remain an unrecognized asylum-seeker in Israel, where he has few protections.
Backers of migrants like Easa say their rights will likely come under greater threat if Israel’s government, its most right-wing ever, moves ahead on a contentious plan to overhaul the judiciary.
The plan, if it passes in its original form, could lead to legal measures that would embitter the everyday lives of the migrants and, critics say, make their stay in Israel intolerable.
Easa, 31, said he fled the war-torn region of Darfur in 2012 over concerns for his life.
“We live here often thanks to the graces of the Supreme Court,” he adds.
Proponents of the legal overhaul say the migrants are a main reason the plan must move ahead.
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