Girl Murdered by Relatives in Khan Yunis to “Maintain Family Honor”

[oberliner]

PCHR strongly condemns the murder of a girl in Khan Yunis allegedly to maintain “the honor” of her family. PCHR calls for the perpetrators of all so called ‘Honour Crimes’ to be rigorously prosecuted, and for appropriate legal action to be taken in order to end such crimes.

According to investigations conducted by PCHR, at approximately 09:00 on Saturday, 30 August 2008, Hussein Mustafa Kaware’, 67, from Jourat al-Lout area in the southern Gaza Strip town of Khan Yunis, went to a police station in the town and confessed murdering his 24-year-old daughter, Hala, and burying her in land belonging to the family. Immediately, the police moved to the area and took the body out. The girl’s hands and feet were tied and her mouth was muzzled. The body was evacuated to Nasser Hospital in the town and from their to the forensic medicine department at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. According to police sources, the father confessed murdering his daughter “to maintain the honor of his family.” The police also arrested 4 of his sons.

This crime has been the second of its kind since the beginning of 2008, as a woman was killed by her relatives in Rafah on 3 June.<1> According to PCHR’s documentation, in 2006 and 2007, 28 Palestinian women were killed in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) in this context, including 22 ones in the Gaza Strip.

http://www.pchrgaza.org/files/PressR/English/2008/81-2008.html

[LeftishBrit]

1. So-called 'honour' killings (what an oxymoron!) are absolutely sick

and a problem in much of the world.

www.stophonorkillings.org

At least it is good that there are organizations like PCHR that bring it up.

Human Rights Watch have also raised this issue:

http://hrw.org/english/docs/2006/11/07/palab14496.htm

[Behind the Aegis]

2. It so damn archaic.

Then again, I think the uber-religious are all stuck in a time which no longer exists....thankfully!

[Violet_Crumble]

3. The first link isn't working....

I think this might be the right one

http://stophonourkillings.com/

[LeftishBrit]

5. You're right; being on DU made me use the American spelling..

[Vegasaurus]

4. Honor killings are a disgrace to all those who value any sort of individual freedom

or human rights.