A gay Palestinian 25-year-old was brutally murdered. His remains were scattered on the side of the road in the occupied West Bank. The man sought asylum in Israel two years ago.
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Col. Loay Irzekat, a police spokesman, said authorities arrested a Palestinian acquaintance of Abu Murkhiyeh as a suspect in the killing, but declined to ascribe a motive or elaborate on their relationship pendingPalestinian social media was gripped by the grisly killing, but silent on the question of Abu Murkhiyeh’s sexuality. Homosexuality remains deeply taboo in the Palestinian territories, where traditional norms play a prominent role in social and political life.
The family claimed that Abu Murkhiyeh lived and worked between Hebron and neighboring Jordan, where his late father was from. "He told me people not only in his family but in the village wanted to kill him," she said, adding that he fled to Israel as word of his sexual orientation spread through Hebron two years ago."He was scared of his brothers, his uncles, his cousins."
"The situation was horrible for all of them," said Ibtisam Mara’ana-Menuhin, an Arab member of the Israeli Knesset who petitioned the Supreme Court to grant gay Palestinian asylum seekers work visas.
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