20200422 COVID-19 Protests in Jerusalem
Read MoreChildren with empty plates beg for food as African asylum seekers, a community of 31,000, stage a ‘Give Back Our Money’ protest outside the Israeli parliament demanding wages confiscated by government be released immediately. Since 2017 the state has deducted 20% of asylum seekers’ wages depositing them into accounts withdrawable only upon leaving the country or obtaining legal refugee status. The Coronavirus pandemic has left them with no income and no government assistance. Asylum seekers claim their socioeconomic situation was miserable to begin with and are now, in the COVID-19 crisis, on the brink of starvation and homelessness.
Children with empty plates beg for food as African asylum seekers, a community of 31,000, stage a ‘Give Back Our Money’ protest outside the Israeli parliament demanding wages confiscated by government be released immediately. Since 2017 the state has deducted 20% of asylum seekers’ wages depositing them into accounts withdrawable only upon leaving the country or obtaining legal refugee status. The Coronavirus pandemic has left them with no income and no government assistance. Asylum seekers claim their socioeconomic situation was miserable to begin with and are now, in the COVID-19 crisis, on the brink of starvation and homelessness.
Children with empty plates beg for food as African asylum seekers, a community of 31,000, stage a ‘Give Back Our Money’ protest outside the Israeli parliament demanding wages confiscated by government be released immediately. Since 2017 the state has deducted 20% of asylum seekers’ wages depositing them into accounts withdrawable only upon leaving the country or obtaining legal refugee status. The Coronavirus pandemic has left them with no income and no government assistance. Asylum seekers claim their socioeconomic situation was miserable to begin with and are now, in the COVID-19 crisis, on the brink of starvation and homelessness.
Children with empty plates beg for food as African asylum seekers, a community of 31,000, stage a ‘Give Back Our Money’ protest outside the Israeli parliament demanding wages confiscated by government be released immediately. Since 2017 the state has deducted 20% of asylum seekers’ wages depositing them into accounts withdrawable only upon leaving the country or obtaining legal refugee status. The Coronavirus pandemic has left them with no income and no government assistance. Asylum seekers claim their socioeconomic situation was miserable to begin with and are now, in the COVID-19 crisis, on the brink of starvation and homelessness.
Children with empty plates beg for food as African asylum seekers, a community of 31,000, stage a ‘Give Back Our Money’ protest outside the Israeli parliament demanding wages confiscated by government be released immediately. Since 2017 the state has deducted 20% of asylum seekers’ wages depositing them into accounts withdrawable only upon leaving the country or obtaining legal refugee status. The Coronavirus pandemic has left them with no income and no government assistance. Asylum seekers claim their socioeconomic situation was miserable to begin with and are now, in the COVID-19 crisis, on the brink of starvation and homelessness.