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Israel offers to pay African migrants Sh362,000 to leave, threatens jail
African illegal migrants carry their belongings following their release from the Holot Detention Centre in Israel's Negev desert on August 25, 2015. Israel had began releasing hundreds of African migrants from the detention centre after a court order. AFP PHOTO | MENAHEM KAHANA | NMG
Israel said on Wednesday it would pay thousands of African migrants living illegally in the country to leave, threatening them with jail if they are caught after the end of March.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in public remarks at a cabinet meeting on the payment program, said a barrier Israel completed in 2013 along its border with Egypt had effectively cut off a stream of “illegal infiltrators” from Africa after some 60,000 crossed the desert frontier.
