{"id":40474,"date":"2019-08-13T21:23:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T21:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40474"},"modified":"2019-08-13T21:23:20","modified_gmt":"2019-08-13T21:23:20","slug":"clashes-kill-nearly-60-fighters-in-northwest-syria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40474","title":{"rendered":"Clashes kill nearly 60 fighters in northwest Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"47\">\n<p>\nJERUSALEM: Israel has deported a Filipino migrant worker and her Israeli-born teenage son after 11th hour legal appeals failed, a children\u2019s rights group and authorities said Tuesday.<br \/>She is among some 600 workers from the Philippines who activists say could face deportation over a loss of residency status.<br \/>They include those who breached the conditions of their residency by starting families in the country.<br \/>The families and supporters say deporting the children to a country which they have never seen and whose languages they do not speak is a cruel policy.<br \/>Rosemarie Perez was arrested by immigration officials along with her 13-year-old son Rohan last week for remaining in the country illegally.<br \/>They had been taken to Ben-Gurion airport near Tel Aviv on Sunday night after an appeals court upheld their deportation, Beth Franco of the United Children of Israel (UCI) association said.<br \/>But they were taken off the plane after their lawyer requested an urgent hearing on their status in a bid to have them remain in Israel.<br \/>On Monday evening, they were escorted to Ben-Gurion airport where they were put on a flight to Bangkok for onward connection to Manila, Franco said.<br \/>Israel\u2019s immigration authority confirmed in a statement they had been deported, adding Perez had been in the country illegally for 12 years and that all court appeals had been exhausted.<br \/>Last week, migrants, their children and Israeli supporters held a protest in Tel Aviv against the policy of deporting Israeli-born children of migrants.<br \/>Many of the 28,000 \u2014 largely Christian \u2014 Filipinos in Israel arrived to work as caregivers and home help, but according to UCI, some 600 families could now face expulsion.<br \/>Their visas were conditioned on the requirement that they do not start a family in the country apart from certain exceptions, the association says.<br \/>The issue has particular resonance in Israel, where there are long-term fears about maintaining a Jewish majority in the country which was founded as a national homeland for Jews.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM: Israel has deported a Filipino migrant worker and her Israeli-born teenage son after 11th hour legal appeals failed, a children\u2019s rights group and authorities said Tuesday.She is among some 600 workers from the Philippines who activists say could face deportation over a loss of residency status.They include those who breached the conditions of their&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40474\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}