Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that Canada, Italy and Germany will take in some of the country’s African migrants under a deal reached with the UN refugee agency.

Under the deal with the UN, Israel would relocate more than 16,000 migrants to Western countries.

“This is a unique agreement between the UN commissioner and the state of Israel, that takes 16,250 people out, takes them out to developed countries like Canada, or Germany and Italy – that is the commitment the U.N. High Commissioner has made – to organize it and even to fund it,” Netanyahu said on live television.

With Reuters