Benjamin Netanyahu
The U.N. refugee agency has expressed “disappointment” over Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to withdraw from an agreement to resettle African migrants.
Under heavy pressure from his hard-line political allies, Netanyahu on Tuesday said he was canceling the deal with the UNHCR, just a day after announcing it at a nationally televised news conference.
Under the deal, the UNHCR would have resettled roughly half of the 35,000 African migrants in Israel in Western countries, while Israel would have absorbed the rest. Israeli hard-liners are opposed to allowing the migrants to remain.
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