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BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountLiveNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityWorldAfricaAsiaAustraliaEuropeLatin AmericaMiddle EastUS & CanadaRuby Franke: Parenting advice YouTuber given maximum sentence for child abusePublished25 minutes agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, @moms_of_truthBy Mike WendlingBBC NewsA Utah woman, whose harsh parenting advice built her a massive YouTube following, has been sentenced to four to 60 years in prison.Ruby Franke, 42, previously pleaded guilty to accusations of starving and abusing her children. She appeared in court on Tuesday along with her former business partner Jodi Hildebrandt, 54, who received an identical sentence.The judge sentenced both to serve four terms of one to 15 years each. How much time they will ultimately serve will be determined by the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole. The two women were arrested in August 2023 after Franke’s malnourished 12-year-old son climbed out of a window at Hildebrandt’s house in Ivins, Utah. Police said the child then ran to a neighbour’s house and asked for food and water. He had lacerations from being tied up with rope, according to police records.Franke racked up more than two million subscribers to her YouTube channel 8 Passengers which was full of strict parenting advice.She described withholding meals as a disciplinary measure and “cancelling” Christmas. In one video, one of her sons described sleeping on a bean bag for months at a time as a punishment. Away from the camera, Franke’s children were subjected to even harsher abuse. This included tying them up, beating and kicking them, neglecting to feed them and forcing them to work outdoors in the summer without sunscreen, resulting in serious sunburn, according to police records.More to follow.Related TopicsYouTubersParentingUnited StatesUtahMore on this storyThe rise and fall of a parenting influencerPublished10 September 2023Parenting YouTuber’s partner pleads guilty to abusePublished28 December 2023Top StoriesPrince William: ‘Too many killed’ in Israel-Gaza warPublished2 hours agoBody found in search for Clapham attack suspectPublished6 hours agoStrictly dancer Robin Windsor dies aged 44Published8 hours agoFeaturesWindsor was ‘a brilliant dancer and a lovely man’Watch: Robin Windsor’s glittering Strictly moments. VideoWatch: Robin Windsor’s glittering Strictly momentsNavalny’s widow faces daunting challengeOne of UK’s ‘most advanced’ vertical farms opensWhat is council tax and how much is it going up?In pictures: London Fashion Week’s big momentsWho is Julian Assange and why is he facing extradition?How Russia has rebranded Wagner in AfricaCompany fined over massive Kazakhstan methane leakElsewhere on the BBCHaving the world’s most common mental health conditionExploring how anxiety culturally manifests and what it looks and feels like first handAttributionSoundsWhy do people behave the way they do on social media?Marianna Spring investigates extraordinary cases of online hate to find out…AttributioniPlayerHow are jelly beans made?Gregg Wallace visits a Dublin factory that makes over ten million of the sweets per day!AttributioniPlayerFrom Malcolm Tucker to Doctor WhoPeter Capaldi opens up to Kirsty Young about what he’s learned from his life so farAttributionSoundsMost Read1Strictly dancer Robin Windsor dies aged 442Immigration watchdog sacked after critical news stories3Tesco changes how it shows Clubcard prices after row4Body found in search for Clapham attack suspect5Minister ‘could not disprove’ alleged SAS war crimes6Prince William: ‘Too many killed’ in Israel-Gaza war7Brightest and hungriest black hole ever detected8Putin denies plans to deploy nuclear weapons in space9Windsor was ‘a brilliant dancer and a lovely man’10The Body Shop to shut up to half of its UK stores

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BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountLiveNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityWorldAfricaAsiaAustraliaEuropeLatin AmericaMiddle EastUS & CanadaWest Bank Palestinians paying the price for Gaza warPublished7 minutes agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingRelated TopicsIsrael-Gaza warImage caption, Kamal Karaja was working on a construction site in Israel before the warBy Alaa Daraghme & Eman EriqatBBC Arabic, RamallahKamal Karaja used to earn $3,500 (£2,780; €3,250) a month working on construction sites in Israel – a good living for a Palestinian in the occupied West Bank.But after the Hamas assault on Israel on 7 October, and the retaliatory Israeli air strikes and ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, his permit was cancelled. Israel cited “security concerns”.”I waited for the war to end but it’s still ongoing,” says the 32-year-old, from the town of Deir Bzi, just outside Ramallah. “I had to sell my car after a month due to money problems.”The Palestinian Authority (PA) says 200,000 workers are affected, mostly in the West Bank.Kamal says his three-year-old daughter Zeina “notices that I’m not buying as much food and vegetables for the house as before”. “She asks me why I no longer buy her chocolate and crisps.”Hundreds of men in Kamal’s town are sitting at home for the same reason – and the economy has ground to a halt.After months of job-seeking, Kamal got two weeks’ work on a construction site in the West Bank. But his employer had to lay him off due to the worsening financial situation. He has now started cutting down trees and selling firewood to local residents.”Selling firewood is worth 2% of the salary I used to get from working in Israel,” says Kamal.Image caption, Israeli checkpoints used to be crammed with Palestinian workers waiting to cross into IsraelHe did not receive any compensation from the authorities or his employer when his permit was cancelled.Like many other Palestinian workers, he was employed without a contract. Foreign worker campaignPalestinians working in Israel – and those working in Israeli settlements in the West Bank – accounted for nearly one in five of all Palestinian workers before 7 October, according to official Palestinian figures.Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank are considered illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this. The workers contributed $3.2bn annually to the Palestinian economy, with most employed in construction. While some Israeli business groups lobbied for Palestinian workers to be allowed back, the government has come up with a different plan.It wants to replace Palestinian workers and plans to admit more than 60,000 workers from India, China, Moldova, Sri Lanka and Thailand this year.The head of the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions, Shaher Saad, has criticised Israel’s decision.”There were about 105,000 Palestinians working in construction in Israel,” Mr Saad told BBC Arabic, adding that they were all unemployed now. “The agreements between Palestinian and Israeli unions force employers to pay compensation to workers due to the cessation of work.”But the Israeli employers evade paying their dues and there is no law in Israel that forces them to do so.”Mr Saad added that it would be “unrealistic and difficult” to replace the expertise of Palestinian workers in the construction, agriculture, tourism and service sectors.Electricity and water cutsBassam Karaja (no relation), a Palestinian father-of-four from Ramallah, has also found himself forced into poverty after his work permit was cancelled.He can no longer afford to pay his bills, so his electricity and water have been cut off. “I was never late in paying the electricity and water company while I was working in Israel these past 10 years,” says Bassam.”But when I stopped working, they stopped their service.”Image caption, Ramallah in the West Bank – the headquarters of the Palestinian AuthorityBassam used to earn $4,000 per month while working in Israel.He says the past four months have been the worst since the Covid pandemic, where he was at least able to work part-time. Bassam accuses the Palestinian Authority, led by President Mahmoud Abbas, of neglecting workers, and says they could have provided financial aid or at least stopped the utility firms withdrawing their services. Since the start of the war, the unemployment rate in the Palestinian territories has jumped from 23% to 47%.The Palestinian economy has also contracted by 35%, according to Labour Minister Nasri Abu Jeish.Mr Jeish said the PA had asked donor countries and the International Labour Organisation for help but “they haven’t heard back yet”.The Palestinian Authority was already suffering financially before the war, but now it is even worse.Israel collects tax revenues on behalf of the PA, worth about $188m per month. This money is used by the PA to pay civil servant salaries and fund public services in both Gaza and the West Bank.As a sign of the growing crisis, the PA only paid staff their December salary a few days ago, at a reduced rate of 60%.It’s estimated that the PA spends about 30% of its budget in Gaza, even though Hamas has run the territory since 2007.Israel said in November that it would not allow any money to go to Hamas in Gaza, stripping this funding out. The PA refused to receive the reduced tax revenues from Israel, forcing it to cut salaries.There seems to be no end in sight.”We thank God that we are still able to provide food and water to our families,” says Kamal.”The butcher understands my situation because he’s a relative – but I can only last another month.” Related TopicsIsrael & the PalestiniansIsrael-Gaza warWest BankTop StoriesNavalny’s team accuses Russia of ‘hiding’ his bodyPublished8 hours agoZelensky warns of ‘artificial deficit’ of weaponsPublished6 hours agoGaza ceasefire talks not very promising, says QatarPublished3 hours agoFeaturesThe Papers: Starmer ‘attacks Trump’ and ‘No way back for Harry’Rosenberg: Dissent takes courage – and Navalny supporters are defiantHow Russian state media are spinning Navalny deathNavalny’s life in ‘Polar Wolf’ remote penal colonyMarina Litvinenko on the death of Alexei Navalny. 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[ad_1] Kamal, from the occupied West Bank, had a well-paid job in Israel before the Hamas attacks – now he is in poverty.

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BBC HomepageSkip to contentAccessibility HelpYour accountLiveNotificationsHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeMore menuMore menuSearch BBCHomeNewsSportWeatheriPlayerSoundsBitesizeCBBCCBeebiesFoodClose menuBBC NewsMenuHomeIsrael-Gaza warCost of LivingWar in UkraineClimateUKWorldBusinessPoliticsCultureMoreTechScienceHealthFamily & EducationIn PicturesNewsbeatBBC VerifyDisabilityAsiaChinaIndiaPakistan: Marching for the thousands who disappeared in BalochistanPublished4 hours agoShareclose panelShare pageCopy linkAbout sharingImage source, Sammi Deen Baloch Image caption, Sammi Deen Baloch (right) holds up a photograph of her father, who had been missing since 2009By Kelly NgBBC NewsPakistan is dominated by news of politics as it prepares for general elections next week. But when hundreds of citizens marched on the capital Islamabad in December, they did so with a completely different agenda.Among them was Sammi Deen Baloch, hugging a laminated photograph of her father – as she had done on numerous occasions over the past 14 years – and demanding to know where he is. Or if he is even still alive. The 26-year-old is one of several women who led the march, which saw protesters walk almost 1,000 miles from the restive Balochistan province, demanding the whereabouts of family members whom they say have been “forcibly disappeared”. At least 200 people were arrested and police fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse the crowds. Campaigns like this are routine in the conflict-ridden province and women play a key part in organising them.Where is Balochistan and why is it the target of strikes?’My father was taken and I don’t know why’Balochistan, in the west of Pakistan, has been the scene of a long-running nationalist insurgency.Separatist militants say they are fighting for a free Balochistan.The protesters say their loved ones – many of them men – have been picked up, tortured and killed with impunity by Pakistani security forces, amid a bloody counterinsurgency operation. Islamabad authorities have denied these accusations.They believe there have been thousands of such disappearances over the last two decades. The UN defines enforced disappearances as “the arrest, detention, abduction or any other form of deprivation of liberty by agents of the state”. Vanished without a traceSammi’s father, Deen Mohammad Baloch, was forcibly disappeared when she was just 11. In June 2009, armed forces stormed a public hospital in south-western Balochistan when he was the doctor on shift and detained him. “Until today we do not know what has happened to him. My mother does not know if she is a widow or still married. And we still don’t know why they took him,” she told the BBC.The Voice for Baloch Missing Persons, a non-profit organisation representing family members of those who disappeared in Balochistan, says approximately 7,000 cases have been registered with them since 2004.The Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances convened by the government records 2,752 active cases of enforced disappearances in the province as of January 2024, but Pakistan’s interim prime minister claimed in a recent interview with the BBC that only about 50 people are missing.Image source, Baloch Yakjehti CommitteeImage caption, Protesters hold photos of their missing relatives, during a protest against so-called enforced disappearancesIn 2021, Pakistan’s parliament – the National Assembly – passed a bill to criminalise enforced disappearances, but it has not yet come into force. Court directives have also been issued over the years to hold the state responsible for such disappearances, but rights groups say these pledges have rung hollow.The state has branded Baloch activists – many of whom have advocated Baloch nationalism and irredentism – as secessionists or trouble-makers.But many people who were picked up in recent years are Baloch people who do not have anything to do with the armed resistance, Pakistani journalist Taha Siddiqui claims. He said officials instead detain “on mere suspicion and at times on false information provided by rival pro-Pakistan groups based in Balochistan”. Protesters have been calling for Pakistani authorities to deal with the accused according to the law, not detain them arbitrarily.”If they had done anything wrong, produce them to the court. These forced disappearances have brought so much suffering to our family. My life has completely changed since 2009. We’ve been put through so much mental torture. I don’t know what life we are living. It is very painful,” Sammi said.Mahrang Baloch, who organised last year’s long march and was arrested twice in the midst of it, told the BBC she hoped it “brought global attention to the human rights violations and state oppression prevalent in Balochistan”.The 30-year-old, who is a prominent figure in the Baloch resistance movement, said that in 2009 her father Abdul Gaffar Langove was taken – allegedly by security service officers – and found dead with signs of torture two years later. Her brother was detained for three months in 2017. “Cases of forced disappearances and extrajudicial killings in Balochistan escalated to an alarming extent… Many people remain unaccounted for. Some may be released after being held in secret cells and tortured. But the conditions of their mental and physical health are far from normal,” she said.Image source, EPAImage caption, Mahrang Baloch’s father was found dead two years after being taken by security officersA Baloch man living in exile in London said he fled Pakistan for fear of being abducted.”The Pakistani army had been trying to impose hegemony on citizens in Balochistan. We have a lot of gold and other natural resources in the province, but the Baloch people do not receive resources from the national government. Some places don’t even have proper drinking water,” said the man, who spoke to the BBC on condition of anonymity.He noted cases of Baloch activists who mysteriously died while in exile, including activist Karima Baloch who was found dead in December 2020 near Lake Ontario in Toronto, Canada. Earlier that year, Pakistani journalist Sajid Hussain, who served as editor-in-chief of The Balochistan Times while in exile in Sweden, was found dead in a river north of Stockholm. Authorities in the respective countries have said the circumstances around both deaths were suspicious.Exploited and alienatedBalochistan recently returned to the global spotlight after it was hit by air strikes from Iran in January, leading Pakistan to retaliate with strikes in Iran’s Sistan and Baluchistan province. Both states say they were targeting Baloch militants.Historically, the term Balochistan has been used to refer to a wider territory that includes land in Iran and Afghanistan. Baloch groups in both Pakistan and Iran are part of a decades-long struggle for greater autonomy, with some fighting for an independent Balochistan state.The Balochs have blamed the Pakistani government for exploiting and profiting from the province’s resources while neglecting its development. It is also a crucial part of a multi-billion dollar project funded by China called the China Pakistan Economic Corridor, but many believe the Baloch people will not receive the employment opportunities created through the project. “The entire province is racked by alienation, dejection and frustration towards Pakistan as well as those Punjabi socio-political elites who call the shots in Pakistan,” said Burzine Waghmar from the University of London’s SOAS South Asia Institute.Protesters and observers believe it is in Pakistan’s political and economic interest to resolve the conflict in Balochistan, but they hold little hope that the upcoming elections would bring change for the Baloch people, and fear it may even disenfranchise the community further. The state has been pushing non-Baloch candidates to contest in Baloch constituencies, which will further alienate the already-marginalised community, Mr Siddiqui said.The election is of little significance for the Baloch, Mahrang said.”Whichever government comes into power, the human rights violations and extrajudicial killings will persist in Balochistan. It has never been of genuine concern to the leadership,” she said.Related TopicsPakistanWomen’s rights in PakistanAsiaMissing peopleMore on this storyPakistan police arrest scores at female-led rallyPublished21 December 2023Uncovering Pakistan’s secret human rights abusesPublished2 June 2019Pakistan accused over dumped bodiesPublished28 December 2016Fear and resentment in BalochistanPublished6 October 2015The untold story of Pakistan’s other warPublished22 February 2014Top StoriesLive. 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[ad_1] He noted cases of Baloch activists who mysteriously died while in exile, including activist Karima Baloch who was found dead in December 2020 near Lake Ontario in Toronto, Canada.…