Sudan: Sudanese asylum seekers take long bus ride to find bed for night

A group of about 60 Sudanese asylum seekers spent 8 July being bussed between Israel’s southern city of Beersheba and the lawns in front of the Knesset (parliament) in Jerusalem, as the authorities tried to decide where they could spend the night. The Sudanese, including some from Darfur, had illegally crossed the Egypt-Israel border in the past few days. Initially, the Beersheba municipality found lodgings for them, while others went to Rahat, a Bedouin town in the southern Negev desert.