The government subsequently unveiled an agreement with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, under which Western countries would take about half of the asylum seekers and Israel would grant legal status to the rest. But Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu scrapped that deal the next day.
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Ugandan officials have repeatedly said they won’t accept asylum seekers who are deported involuntarily. In response to a question from Haaretz last week, a Ugandan presidential spokeswoman said, “Uganda is not ready to take any asylum seekers from Israel without their consent,” adding that this had already been made clear by the country’s foreign minister.
She also denied that Uganda had any agreement whatsoever with Israel about the asylum seekers and denied that Netanyahu had ever discussed the issue with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni.