African migrants take part in a protest opposite the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem January 8, 2014. REUTERS/Baz Ratner
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - More than 10,000 African migrants demonstrated outside Israel's parliament on Wednesday, extending protests into a fourth consecutive day in a quest for recognition as refugees and freedom to work legally without fear of incarceration.
Their presence in a Jewish state that took in survivors of the Nazi Holocaust of World War Two has stoked an emotional political debate over whether they should be allowed to stay as a humane gesture.
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