Category: Israel-MidEast Issues

(Israel) Beit Jan: Father shoots daughter in ‘honor killing’
— IPS warden arrested on suspicion of killing daughter over family honor

— ‘Honor’ Murder in Beit Jan
— “A resident of Beit Jan arrived at the Carmiel police station on
Saturday night with his badly wounded daughter, aged 23.”
— “The man told police he had shot the young woman in an ‘honor’ attack, because her behavior violated the tenets of Islam.”
— “Paramedics rushed to the scene, but were unable to save the young woman, who died of her wounds before reaching the nearest hospital.”

(Israel) Details of Dana Bennett murder revealed
— Yihya Farkhan “also told the police that shortly prior to Bennett’s murder, he raped another woman living in Tiberias and tried to abduct her as well, but she got away. He also confessed to the attempted murder of his sister — by poison
— which he said was supposed to be an ‘honor killing.’ His sister survived the attempt.”
— Suspected Arab Israeli serial killer confesses: police
— “The suspect had also confessed to trying to poison his sister in what he called a failed ‘honour killing.'”

(Israel) Arab Web surfer asks: Can I kill my cousin for ‘family honor’?
— “Should a man kill his female cousin who compromised the ‘family honor’?
A user posted that question to Israel’s fourth most popular Arabic-language
Web site, Panet, last week, and said he intended to do so.”