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Killed For the Family's Honour: There is growing concern among Palestinian human rights workers after the killings of at least six young women in recent months. The murders are described in some quarters as "honour killings". The victims are usually accused of behaving improperly and bringing shame upon their families.
She was last seen at half past two on a Saturday afternoon looking down from a window in her family's apartment.
They live on a main road, in a building that houses an ice-cream shop. Outside a religious procession was making its way through the streets.
Someone walking in that procession, who knew her face and her troubles, glanced up and saw her.
Less than two hours later, she was dead - her skull crushed - reportedly by blows from an iron bar.
Her name was Faten. She was 22-years-old, a Palestinian Christian from the West Bank city of Ramallah.
After her lifeless body was found, her father and an aunt were taken into custody.
Faten had fallen in love with a young man called Samer, a Muslim, from Jericho. Her family disapproved of her choice.
Faten decided to use an ancient formula for resolving disputes, known in Arabic as 'Tanebeh'
In the last desperate weeks of her life, Faten knew a death sentence was hanging over her head, and she tried hard to escape it.
She attempted to elope, but did not get far and was sent home, to face the wrath of her relatives.
Some reports say beatings from family members resulted in a broken pelvis. Others that she sustained the injury when she jumped from a third floor window.
Either way she wound up in hospital,
Continued: BBC NEWS | Programmes | From Our Own Correspondent | Killed for the family's honour
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