Airbnb has reversed its decision to remove rental listings of homes located inside Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The move will settle legal action brought by hosts, potential hosts and guests against the US firm. Airbnb said it would now donate all proceeds from rentals in the West Bank to humanitarian organisations. The settlements are considered illegal under… Read more »
A human rights monitoring groups has reported that a prominent Iranian lawyer has been arrested and convicted of a security related crime in a secret trial. It has been reported that she may be facing a very lengthy sentence. As a lawyer, her focus is directed upon women who defy Iran’s head-covering rule for all women. The group learned of… Read more »
An airstrike hit Khan Sheikhoun on Tuesday, leaving many injured and dead as the White Helmets, a Syrian humanitarian group who are members of the Syrian Civil Defense, help those civilians who struggle in the rebel-held province. 3 million civilians have been scrambling in search of safety due to Russian and Syrian planes conducting airstrikes in Idlib. Photos photographed by… Read more »
Wonder Woman star Gal Gadot has become embroiled in a row with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the status of the country’s Arab minority. “Love your neighbour as yourself,” the Israeli actress said, amid wrangling over the role of Israeli Arab parties in upcoming polls. Mr Netanyahu caused a stir when he said Israel “was not a state of… Read more »
It was too dangerous to send British officials to rescue Shamima Begum’s baby son in Syria, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said. The child died in a refugee camp after his mother, who joined IS in 2015, was stripped of UK citizenship. The boy was a UK citizen – but Mr Hunt told the BBC that any rescuers’ lives would… Read more »
A prominent Iranian human rights lawyer has been sentenced to a total of 38 years in jail and 148 lashes in Tehran, her family say. Nasrin Sotoudeh was charged with several national security-related offences, all of which she denies. Rights groups strongly criticised the “shocking” sentence against the award-winning human rights activist. Ms Sotoudeh is known for representing women who… Read more »
CNN)The heartbreaking photo shows a 6-year-old girl, blood smeared all over her face, as she waits to be rescued from the rubble of a bombed-out building in northwestern Syria.Looking past her shell-shocked face, you can see a lifeless hand under her knee.It’s the hand of her 3-year-old sister, who didn’t survive the airstrike. Her 1-year-old brother also died in the… Read more »
Eastern Syria (CNN)She was covered from head to toe in black. Identifying herself only as Um Bassam, the mother of Bassam, she told me she was 25 years old, the mother of four children, a widow, and from the city of Aleppo. All around her were clusters of other women with similar stories, also clad in black, faces concealed, with their… Read more »
A prominent Iranian lawyer who defended women arrested when they defied Iran’s head-covering rule has been convicted of security-related crimes in a secret trial and could face a “very lengthy sentence,” a human-rights monitoring group reported Wednesday. The group, the Center for Human Rights in Iran, said it had learned of the conviction of the lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh, from her husband…. Read more »
The baby of Shamima Begum, a British teenager who joined the Islamic State and has sought to return home even as she has defended the group’s actions, has died in a detention camp in Syria, according to a spokesman for the group currently holding the woman. Now 19, Ms. Begum was a 15-year-old schoolgirl when she slipped out of her… Read more »