

Waiting in Holot: From the Interview to Detention
Our Board Member Osman Ali fled the genocide in Darfur and arrived in Israel in 2012. Since October, he has been detained in the Holot Detention Center in the middle of the Negev Desert with 3,050 other African asylum seekers who all wait in uncertainty. Osman describes his experience below. I first arrived in the Holot detention camp on Wednesday, October 21 at 12:30pm with 50 Eritreans. Already there were many people waiting ahead of us--some of them had come for interviews