RAFAH, Egypt (Reuters) – Egyptian police shot dead an unidentified African migrant on the border with Israel on Monday as he tried to enter the Jewish state illegally, a security official said.
A police patrol spotted the man near the border and opened fire on him when he tried to escape, ignoring an order to stop, a hospital source said.
The hospital source added that the man had been shot in the stomach, thigh and leg and was dead on arrival at El Arish hospital. The dead man carried no form of identification, the sources added.
His death brings to 27 the number of African migrants killed by Egyptian security on the border with Israel this year.
The migrants, mainly from Sudan, Ethiopia or Eritrea, are looking for work or asylum in Israel.
For years Egypt tolerated tens of thousands of Africans on its territory but its attitude hardened after it came under pressure to halt rising numbers of Africans trying to cross the border into Israel.
Earlier in November, U.S.-based rights group Human Rights Watch called on Egypt to stop shooting African migrants. (Reporting by Yusri Mohamed and Mohamed Yousef)
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Egyptians are neither muslims nor pagans. They are always a shame to the Arab world. They only see white people as their “God”.
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November 25th, 2008 at 9:19 PM
You are right Ibrahim, the way they treat others always brings criticism against Islam, for example, in Ethiopia, Christians and Muslims have managed to live in peace for centuries but Egyptians, Turks and the likes have always tried to spoil these relationship by putting their hands in our affair and look what they are doing against the Coptic Christians who accepted them without war in their land, they take their young girls and forcefully convert them to Islam without their consent, take other people’s wives for themselves and stuffs like this but look at UAE and their leader AL Maktoum who is very good at leading his people and managing his Islam views not to scare people away but by showing what his religion stands by seeing other religion not as a threat but as people who has right to live under what they think is right, as an ardent Orthodox Christian, I don’t need anyone to interfere in my faith and I strongly believe that I have to do the same. God is the only one who knows love to its extreme and knows how to manage us according to our own belief but not by the belief we are forced or cheated to believe in like the some self centered protestants. Regarding about the killing of poor African imigrants, one day they will face the same fate, God never forgets a poor man’s blood as he has never forgotten Abel’s blood.
Cheers
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November 26th, 2008 at 11:45 AM