Rights groups decry Gaza 'honor killing'

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JERUSALEM (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.

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.

According to investigators for the Gaza-based Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, the father and his three sons were taken into police custody. They said the killing "was carried out on grounds related to 'preserving' the honor of the family."

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/30/mideast.honor.killings/index.html

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1. NOBODY'S dusty old book of lies justifies this shit!

May there be a hell created to swallow Jawdat al-Najar.

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3. +1

[PatSeg]

2. Now five children are motherless

I'll never understand.

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4. Religion makes me sick.

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5. twisted, sick fucking logic....murder

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6. yup