Israel orders migrants to new detention facility

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli authorities have begun ordering hundreds of African migrants to report to a new detention center in the country’s southern desert while it seeks to find them a place to settle and offers incentives to leave, an official said Wednesday.

Daniel Solomon, a legal adviser for Israel’s Interior Ministry, said Wednesday that several hundred migrants are expected in the new Holot facility by the end of the month, with the number swelling to 3,500 by the end of February. The migrants will remain there while Israel processes asylum requests and searches for other countries to take them in.