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Teklit Michael, 29, an asylum seeker from Eritrea

Israel has developed a system for pushing out refugees it doesn’t want

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A year-long investigation by Foreign Policy magazine reveals Israel’s secret system for shuffling out African asylum-seekers, via Rwanda or Uganda, into third countries, where they are no longer anyone’s responsibility.

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