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Umm Raghad’s children do not have proper clothes or a furnace at home to stay warm during Syria’s bitter winter so they burn scraps of garbage to keep the biting cold at bay. “Every morning, I wake up and find that my children aren’t near me,” Umm Raghad told Agence France-Presse from a displacement camp in northwestern Idlib Governorate. “They go out early to collect scraps of plastic from the streets, such as bags and shoe soles,” the mother of three said, her face half-covered b...

KAFR AROUK , Syria, — Umm Raghad’s children don’t have proper clothes or a furnace at home to stay warm during Syria’s bitter winter so they burn scraps of garbage to keep the biting cold at bay.“Every morning I wake up and find that my children aren’t near me,” Umm Raghad told AFP from a displacement camp in the north-western province of Idlib.“They go out early to collect

Occupied East Jerusalem – An Israeli court has postponed its decision on an appeal lodged by Palestinian families facing forced displacement from their homes in occupied East Jerusalem’s Silwan district. The appeal was against an Israeli court verdict in 2020, which okayed the expulsion of seven Palestinian families in order for Jewish settlers to move into the predominantly Arab district – part of the Israeli policy to build settler homes in occupied East Jerusalem, which is seen by Pale...