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Esraa Ghareb

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  • Страна местожительства: Palestine
  • Пол: Female
  • Born in: 1998
  • key_age: 25
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Israa Gharib (1998 - August 22, 2019 in Bethlehem) is a 21-year-old Palestinian woman who was beaten and tortured to death by three Palestinian youths for posting a selfie with her fiancé a day before their marriage date. However, her family denied this accusation, claiming that she died of a heart attack.

Investigations showed that the cause of death was a severe beating that led to acute respiratory failure.

investigations
The issue was raised after a video spread of a girl screaming in a hospital in the Palestinian city of Bethlehem in August 2019.

On August 22, 2019, Israa died of serious injuries in her home in Beit Sahour. Her death caused protests by a number of women and feminist organizations in Palestine due to the suspicion that it was an honor killing.

On 6 September, the Palestinian authorities detained three persons in pretrial detention, pending the final forensic report. Part of the samples were examined inside Palestine, while another part was sent to Jordan, where the results are supposed to be delivered to the Public Prosecution on September 10th.

During the societal upheaval of the incident, three forensic doctors in the Ministry of Health submitted their resignations, but the ministry denied any connection to their resignation with Israa's case.

On September 12, 2019, the investigation concluded that Gharib died due to complications in her respiratory system due to severe and repeated beatings. Where the Palestinian Public Prosecutor held a press conference in which he confirmed that the young woman, Israa, was killed as a result of severe beating, based on the content of the report, which stated that “the cause of Israa’s death was acute respiratory failure resulting from the severe beatings and abuse she was subjected to,”denying the allegations that she fell from a balcony. home or have a heart attack.

Accordingly, the Public Prosecution directed the felony of murder against her three family members (M.S.), (B.G) and (A.G).

reactions and public opinion
The hashtag #WeAreAllIsraa was launched on social networks in solidarity with the cause. While the Palestinian Prime Minister considered it a “society issue.”
The Justice Project, a Palestinian human rights organization, expressed its condemnation, stating, "We are angry and saddened by the crime of...heinous murder." While the Independent Commission for Human Rights called for lessons to be drawn from the killing incident, in order to ensure that the mistakes made with other women are not repeated, by expediting the approval of the Family Protection from Violence Act and putting it into effect.
The course of the trial
Sources familiar with the file of the murder of the Palestinian young woman, Israa Gharib, confirmed that the coming period may witness the entry of new people into the accusation circle in the case that raised Palestinian and international public opinion.

On Monday, the Bethlehem Court of First Instance held the second session of the trial in the case of the murder of Israa Gharib, and the session was public, like the first session held on November 18, and was devoted to hearing a number of 41 witnesses for the prosecution, including the victim’s father, Nasser Gharib. Two nurses and two doctors from the two hospitals where she underwent treatment and medical examination.

The sources, who asked not to be named, said, “Sorcerers had a major role in the psychological destruction of Israa, which puts them in the circle of accusation, as one of the charlatans in one of the Bethlehem camps told her that she was suffering from magic that would cause her death, so her behavior and behavior began to change.” And she had a constant obsession that someone was chasing her father to kill him, and that this prompted her family to beat her severely to get out the jinn who possessed her, as they believed, and that these actions prompted her father to request that the rest of his testimony be kept confidential.

Representatives of Palestinian human rights organizations attended the session of the ninth of December 2019, including the representative of “Lawyers for Justice”, Fatima Al-Zahraa Al-Halabi, and she said, “The court heard the testimony of Israa’s father, which lasted about an hour and a half, and part of his testimony was public, and the other part confidential. The public part talked about the characteristics of his daughter, how she lived spoiled in the family as the last of the cluster, and how her behavior changed in the recent period before her death, including her fear of jinn and witchcraft, and the repetition that there are people chasing her father to kill him.

Fatima Al-Halabi said: “The father, who works in a barbershop, said that he received a call the night before Eid al-Adha from his son Ihab, who is one of the accused of causing Israa’s death, telling him that she had fallen from the balcony of the house, so he returned home to see her. He found her calm in her bed, and returned to the court the details of her occurrence. Because, according to him, she tried to escape from the house, and this is the story that the family confirmed to the media in the first period of spreading the news of Israa’s death, then he asked that the rest of his testimony be confidential in order to preserve the family’s privacy and cohesion.

Retracting the word “killed” and replacing it with “death”
Dunia Al-Watan Agency, the only agency that covers the trial sessions of the defendants in the Israa Gharib case, retracted the term “killed” in the news it publishes, and replaced the term with “the death of Israa Gharib,” after the Palestinian prosecution failed to prove the existence of a murder to the Palestinian judiciary after five hearings were held. courts in the case.

The release of the accused
On February 17, 2021, the Palestinian judiciary decided to release the three defendants in the case in exchange for a judicial bail, after contradictory evidence and statements of the forensic doctor (supervising the autopsy of the girl Israa) at the court, and the Palestinian prosecution did not provide any evidence proving that the girl had been subjected to a crime, and in the end it proved In his statement to the court, the forensic doctor stated that Israa had not been subjected to any torture at all, and after listening to the forensic doctor's statements, the court decided to release the defendants immediately.

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