Bedouin Smugglers Abuse Africans Held for Ransom

TEL AVIV - About 1,000 African migrants trying to cross the Sinai Desert from Egypt into Israel have been systematically beaten, raped and held captive for ransom in the past year by the Bedouin smugglers they hired to help them make the journey, an Israeli advocacy organization said Tuesday. Testimony collected by the Hotline for Migrant Workers in a new report depicts a network of torture