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-- organizations or individuals providing medical care, food or water, legal help, and/or shelter are subject to the same penalties;
-- border crossing officers may summarily deport infiltrators to Egypt, giving them no chance to apply for asylum;
-- if not immediately deported, they'll be detained indefinitely; even if their home country is a war zone, they won't be released;
-- they may be held up to two weeks or longer before judicial review if they even get one; and
-- women and children will be treated like men.
If the bill passes, Israel's notoriously shaky safe haven status will end for non-Jews.
According to estimates, up to 20,000 asylum seekers are currently in Israel, 85% from Sudan and Eritrea - the latter country Israel's Justice Ministry calls a dictatorship with widespread violations of human and political rights, including imprisonments without trial, religious persecution, and disappearances.
Sudanese refugees come mainly from two conflict zones - Darfur and South Sudan.
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