After several months at a migrant detention facility, Israel issued him a temporary travel document and put him on an Ethiopian Airlines flight to Niger. After a week in detention in his home country, Muhamad was deported back to Israel, where he was detained upon his arrival at Ben Gurion airport. He spent several more weeks in an airport detention facility before Israel attempted to deport him back to Niger a second time. After again refusing to accept Muhamad’s travel document, authorities in Niamey put him on a second Ethiopian Airlines flight to Israel. But by that point, his Israeli travel document had expired, leaving Muhamad in limbo at the Addis Ababa airport.

Source: Ethiopian News February 19, 2019 13:40 UTC