Roundup for the Middle East: Tunisia drives frightened Africans to its borders

Roundup for the Middle East: Tunisia drives frightened Africans to its borders
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Numerous Black African migrants and refugees who were abandoned near Tunisia’s barren frontiers are either missing, dead, or in distress. Turkey claims to support Sweden’s application to NATO. Additionally, after Israel’s invasion, Palestinians in the Jenin refugee camp are attempting to return to normal. The Middle East this week is as follows:
They drank saltwater because they were so thirsty. Expulsion of Black African refugees and migrants from the city of Sfax to barren places on Tunisia’s borders, where they were left without water, food, or shade, was the conclusion of what many claim to have been months of racial abuse.
At Ben Guerdane, a militarized border crossing between Tunisia and Libya, hundreds were collected up, driven for more than three hours, and then released. Others were driven to the border with Algeria.

Several were allegedly assaulted and mistreated by Tunisian police before being returned from the border with Libya to villages in southern Tunisia, but many are still stranded there. Two men’s remains have been found near where they were last seen, but communication has been lost with the party that was abandoned near Algeria.

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