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Honor Killings Remain Fashionable in Gaza
Gaza's laws continue to impose a maximum sentence of 24 months for honor killings - making them popular in the Hamas-run enclave.
3/26/2012, 10:29 PM
Gaza Women Protest
Reuters
A man who murdered a female relative in a Gaza hospital last Friday is claiming the murder was to preserve "family honor" to "escape judicial punishment."
The Palestinian Authority amended its laws to end leniency for so-called honor killings in Judea and Samaria in May 2011, but the law has not been changed in Hamas-run Gaza.
The Gaza-based Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights said reduced sentences - a maximum of 24 months in jail for severe crimes like murder - had made "honor" crimes "prevalent in the Palestinian society and has resulted in opening the door for undermining the principle of the rule of law."
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Rights groups decry Gaza 'honor killing'
Rights groups decry Gaza 'honor killing' - CNN.com
(CNN) -- A 27-year-old mother of five was bludgeoned to death with an iron chain by her father last week in Gaza in what human rights groups report was an honor killing.
Palestinian Muslim women walk past a shop displaying Western clothes in Gaza City.
According to police in Gaza, the father, Jawdat al-Najar, heard his daughter Fadia, who had divorced in 2005, speaking on the phone with a man. He believed she was having a relationship with him. Police say al-Najar became enraged and beat her to death; her body was brought to a hospital where officials said she died of a skull fracture.
The woman was beaten to death in the northern Gaza neighborhood of Jebalya on Thursday night. The father called police and confessed to the murder.
Gaza's laws continue to impose a maximum sentence of 24 months for honor killings - making them popular in the Hamas-run enclave.
3/26/2012, 10:29 PM
Gaza Women Protest
Reuters
A man who murdered a female relative in a Gaza hospital last Friday is claiming the murder was to preserve "family honor" to "escape judicial punishment."
The Palestinian Authority amended its laws to end leniency for so-called honor killings in Judea and Samaria in May 2011, but the law has not been changed in Hamas-run Gaza.
The Gaza-based Al-Mezan Center for Human Rights said reduced sentences - a maximum of 24 months in jail for severe crimes like murder - had made "honor" crimes "prevalent in the Palestinian society and has resulted in opening the door for undermining the principle of the rule of law."
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Rights groups decry Gaza 'honor killing'
Rights groups decry Gaza 'honor killing' - CNN.com
(CNN) -- A 27-year-old mother of five was bludgeoned to death with an iron chain by her father last week in Gaza in what human rights groups report was an honor killing.
Palestinian Muslim women walk past a shop displaying Western clothes in Gaza City.
According to police in Gaza, the father, Jawdat al-Najar, heard his daughter Fadia, who had divorced in 2005, speaking on the phone with a man. He believed she was having a relationship with him. Police say al-Najar became enraged and beat her to death; her body was brought to a hospital where officials said she died of a skull fracture.
The woman was beaten to death in the northern Gaza neighborhood of Jebalya on Thursday night. The father called police and confessed to the murder.
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