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Forty-five thousand African asylum seekers live in Israel today. They fled their home countries to escape persecution.
However, Israel’s government maintains they are job-seeking migrants and refuses to grant 99 percent of applicant’s asylum status.
Barred from deportation by international law, they live in limbo without jobs or social benefits.
CGTN’s Stephanie Freid has been following one Sudanese asylum seeker since 2014. His traumatic story is typical of countless others — but he is defying the odds
