GAZA CITY: Gaza police have arrested family members over the deaths of two Palestinian teenage girls, one of them the victim of a suspected “honour” killing, Hamas authorities said yesterday.
Authorities caught relatives of one of the girls as they were trying to bury her in a cemetery near Jabaliya, north of Gaza City, on Thursday, police spokesman Ayyub Abu Shaar said. The girl’s father had “beat her days before her death”, Abu Shaar said.
The Gaza-based Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) said a post-mortem showed signs of “torture” all over the girl’s body as well as signs of untreated gangrene from years of physical abuse.AFP
