Wednesday, March 5, 2008

ISRAELI-ARAB CONVICTED OF "HONOR KILLING"

Israeli Arab jailed for 16 years over 'honor killing' of his sister (HAARETZ)
A Tel Aviv court has sentenced an Israeli Arab man to 16 years in prison for involvement in the murder of his sister in an "honor killing," after several female relatives took the rare step of testifying against him, according to court documents.

Hamda Abu Ghanem was the ninth woman killed in the clan in recent years by men in the family. She was shot in January last year as she slept at her parents' home in a Muslim neighborhood of Ramle, a mixed Jewish-Arab town of 65,000 in central Israel.

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