Slippery Slope

Adi Elsin, 30, an inspector and intelligence coordinator in the Population, Immigration and Border Authority’s Oz enforcement unit, was indicted for allegedly assaulting and extorting Indian labor migrants, and in one case he is suspected of performing indecent acts on a female foreign worker. (Haaretz)

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Two wardens from the Ministry of Interior’s Oz unit arrived at a kindergarten and arrested a five year old girl who was transferred to a detention facility with her mother in preparation for their deportation.

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Central Command Chief, Maj. Gen. Nitzan Alon, issued a new order allowing inspectors from the Interior Ministry’s enforcement unit, called Oz unit, to remove any foreigners found in the West Bank without a permit, including in area A. This step was struck down in the past by the High Court of Justice, on the grounds that the Interior Ministry inspectors do not have authority in the West Bank.

Inspectors from the Interior Ministry’s Oz Unit arrested a family of asylum seekers from Africa in its home in Arad, and transferred them to a detention facility in Omer, even though the family is from North Sudan and therefore cannot be deported. (Haaretz)

The Ministry of Interior’s Oz Unit refuses to release from detention a Filipino migrant laborer and her four-year-old son who suffers from autism and requires constant psychological and medical attention.

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Vincenta Kabsag, a migrant worker from the Philippines who is a legal resident of Israel, claims that inspectors from the Ministry of Interior’s operational unit Oz treated her aggressively and violently.

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A priest from Ghana who has been living in Israel legally for 25 years, claimed that “Oz unit” inspectors of the Ministry of the Interior arrested and tortured him for hours, just for not carrying a passport.

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A confrontation broke out between the Oz unit officers and Freudor Kitate, a diplomat from the Embassy of Congo, in the Hatikva neighborhood in Tel – Aviv. The Ambassador, Marcel Makangu, said that the officers did not accept the diplomatic certificate presented to them by Mr. Kitate and ordered him to present a passport. The Population and Migration Authority reported that Kitate refused to identify himself and cursed the inspectors.

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Seven children, aged one to three and a half, have been arrested in two days, along with their mothers, by Unit Oz inspectors. They were taken to the entry-denied facility in Ben-Gurion airport.

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Neot Hakikar farmers say that OZ unit inspectors were brutal in their conduct towards migrant laborers employed there under valid licenses. The farmers also complain that the inspectors broke into warehouses and damaged them as part of spot-inspections they held on their farms. The police refused to handle these complaints and referred the residents to the OZ unit. (Hebrew)