An Eritrean man was arrested Sunday in the stabbing death of a 29-year-old man, also from Eritrea, in Beer Shevas Old City. Police said the men had been arguing about the government in their home country.

Police said Gabar Tilai stabbed the victim, whose name was not released, before dawn at a club frequented by Eritreans. The victim was declared dead at the scene, and Tilai turned himself in to police a few hours later. His detention was extended by the Beer Sheva Magistrates Court until next Wednesday. Another man was also arrested in connection to the stabbing; his detention was extended until Sunday.

Last month dozens of asylum seekers were involved in fights in south Tel Aviv and in the southern Israeli town of Kiryat Malakhi following Eritreas Independence Day. Rioters were arrested or injured after supporters and opponents of the regime threw stones and other objects at each other and beat each other up.

The head of the Enforcement and Foreign Affairs Administration in the Interior Ministrys Population, Immigration and Border Authority, Yossi Edelstein, told a Knesset hearing recently that the agency does not examine whether Eritrean asylum seekers in Israel are supporters or opponents of the regime in their native country.