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Hannah Confino

Hope for Israel's Darfur asylum seekers after court ruling

After receiving a temporary residency visa, Sabona Hassan, an asylum seeker who at the age of eight fled Darfur, Sudan, feeds pigeons on Neve Shanaan street, a hub for migrants in southern Tel Aviv, Israel December 29, 2021. Picture taken December 29, 2021. REUTERS/Amir Cohen

When he was eight, Sabona Mohamed Hassan says men on horseback rode through his village in Sudan's troubled Darfur region, killing, looting and torching homes with people trapped inside.

Separated from his family, Hassan says he fled from Sudan to Egypt and on through the Sinai desert into Israel, where he has been living in immigration limbo for 11 years.

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