‘One million refugees headed for Israel’
IDF units responsible for guarding Israel’s expansive western border with Egypt said Thursday that there are one million would-be infiltrators from Africa waiting to cross the mostly barrier-less border and enter Israel illegally.
The statements were made to a group of MKs from the Knesset’s Committee on the Issue of Foreign Workers, who traveled to the South to hear an assessment of the situation from those closest to the problem.
After hearing the briefing by IDF officers, the committee’s members called upon the government to immediately initiate the IDF contingency plan that was approved by the Olmert administration, known as “Hourglass.” The plan includes a number of steps to be taken to significantly reduce the number of work immigrants who infiltrate across Israel’s expansive southern borders.