According to Haaretz, the manner in which the Israeli army deploys the asylum seekers is 'barred from publication'
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Defense officials speaking off the record to the liberal Israeli newspaper said the "project is conducted in an organized manner, with the guidance of defense establishment legal advisers."
After the start of Israel's war on Gaza on 7 October, "Defense officials realized they could use the help of the asylum seekers and exploit their desire to obtain permanent status in Israel as an incentive."
However, Israeli officials have not granted permanent status to any asylum seekers who have volunteered for combat in Gaza so far, and refuse to say exactly how the new recruits are used.
"No asylum seekers who contributed to the war effort have been granted official status," Haaretz wrote, despite risking their lives, while the manner in which the Israeli army deploys the asylum seekers is "barred from publication."
Haaretz reported the case of an African man who asked to be identified only by an initial, A. He arrived in Israel at age 16. He must renew his temporary residency status periodically with the Interior Ministry's Population and Immigration Authority to avoid deportation.
After the war began, A. received a phone call from someone who claimed to be a police officer.
"They told me they were looking for special people to join the army. They told me this was a life-or-death war for Israel," he told Haaretz.
He told him there was a two-week training period if he was drafted and that he would receive pay similar to what he earned at his current job.
"I asked, what do I get? Even though I'm not really looking for anything. But then he told me – If you go this way, you can receive documents from the State of Israel. He asked me to send him a photocopy of my ID and said he would take care of these things."
Shortly before his training was set to begin, A. changed his mind.
"I wanted to go, and I was very serious about it, but then I thought – just two weeks of training and then to be part of the war effort? I've never touched a gun in my life."
According to the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), roughly 45,000 African asylum seekers are now living in Israel, most of them young men who are paid low wages in jobs that Israelis do not want.
Most are from the war-torn countries of Eritrea and Sudan. They crossed the Sinai desert and entered Israel in waves between the years 2005-2012.
In 2012, Israel built a border fence along the border with Egypt that ended the influx. Only around 100 have entered Israel since.
In early 2018, Israel adopted a plan to expel tens of thousands of African asylum seekers.
Prime Minister Netanyahu noted that after building the fence on the Egyptian border and deporting some 20,000 African migrants through various deals, Israel had reached the third stage of its efforts - "accelerated removal."
"This removal is taking place thanks to an international agreement I reached that enables us to remove the 40,000 infiltrators remaining, remove them without their consent," he told ministers.
The Israeli government also refers to Palestinians seeking to return to their homes in what is now Israel after the Nakba in 1948 as "infiltrators."
That year, Zionist militias used massacres and rape to ethnically cleanse roughly 750,000 Palestinians from their homes, making them refugees in Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria to make space for Jewish refugees and immigrants from all over the world.
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