Israel court clears the deportation of South Sudan migrants

The bulk of some 60,000 Africans who have crossed into Israel through its porous desert border with Egypt are from Sudan, an overwhelmingly Muslim nation that does not recognize the Jewish state, and from war-ravaged Eritrea.

The rightist government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sees in the migrants a big economic and demographic threat to Israel's already ethnically strained population of 7.8 million.