A gay Palestinian man, who living in Israel under asylum, was kidnapped and beheaded in the Palestinian Authorities-controlled West Bank. “The severed head and decapitated torso of a 25-year-old Palestinian were discovered on the side of a road” in the West Bank city of Hebron, the Associated Press reported.
Israel-based “LGBTQ organizations and emergency shelters helping gay asylum seekers said they knew he was gay and desperate to escape the Palestinian territories, where he was a target,” the new agency added.
Media reports indicate that the Palestinian man was killed for being gay. Those close to the victim “are certain he was killed due to his sexuality,” the Jerusalem Post noted.
The Israeli TV channel i24News reported the details of the gruesome murder:
A gay Palestinian man living in Israel under asylum was murdered and beheaded on Wednesday in the West Bank city of Hebron.The 25-year-old victim, identified as Ahmad Abu Murkhiyeh, was living in Israel for the past two years as an asylum-seeker after authorities acknowledged his life would be in danger in Palestinian territory, according to Hebrew media.An unnamed suspect was arrested by the West Bank’s Palestinian Authority (PA) police near the scene of the crime soon after it was committed. The suspect recorded the act in a video that he uploaded to social media.Rita Petrenko, founder of Al-Bayt Al-Mukhtalif, an NGO for the empowerment of the Arab LGBTQ+ community, said she helped arrange Abu Murkhiyeh’s asylum papers in preparation for his eventual resettlement in Canada.To the best of her knowledge, Petrenko said Abu Murkhiyeh had not returned to the West Bank since his asylum out of fear of what his estranged family and other community members might do to him.It was not immediately clear how or why he ended up in Hebron, and the PA is currently interrogating the suspect to determine his guilt and motive.Lu’ay Arziqat, a PA police spokesman, called the beheading a “new kind of crime in Palestine” and urged people to refrain from sharing the video on social media.
Being gay can be a death sentence for those who have the misfortune of living under Palestinian rule. Gays and Lesbians living under Palestinian rule fear for their lives–often from own their family members. In terror group Hamas-controlled Gaza, they can be executed for the crime of having “gay sex.”
According to a Pew poll on “Global Acceptance of Homosexuality” held in 2013, Palestinian Territories ranked among the bottom 10, with 96 percent of the population rejecting homosexuality. A 2019 survey on public attitudes across the Arab world found that “Palestinians harbored the most intolerance toward gay relations,” the Jerusalem Post noted.
Seeking refuge in the Israel is often the only path to escape death and persecution. Homosexuality is illegal in the Palestinian Territories.
Israel grants asylum status and work permits to homosexuals fleeing Palestinian-controlled territories. “About 90 Palestinians who identify as members of the LGBT community currently live as asylum-seekers in Israel. They suffered discrimination, and, in extreme cases, violence in their communities before fleeing. Until this past July, the law allowed them to reside in Israel but not to work,” The Times of Israel reported.
Self-proclaimed defenders of “LGBTQIA+ community” were silent over Friday’s gruesome West Bank killing. Perpetually triggered by imagined iniquities of the West, they could hardly be bothered to notice the murderous war being against gays and women in the Sharia-governed Muslim states — with Islamic Republic of Iran currently leading the pack with its deadly crackdown of women’s protest.
Noting the shameful silence from otherwise vocal leftist and progressive agitators in the U.S. and the West, Israeli commentator David Lange wrote in his blog Israellycool on Friday:
Now let’s look at those who have not mentioned, let alone condemned, his brutal murder:
- The mainstream media (as of the time of this post) So-called ‘human rights’ organizations like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International
- Queers for Palestine and other such LGBTQ groups quick to condemn Israel at every available turn
- Former tennis player an high-profile lesbian Martina Navratilova (even after repeated efforts by me to get her condemnation)
- The Squad
- Roger Waters, who claims to care about human rights
- And the list goes on (…)
Of course, it is clear that these hypocrites won’t condemn his murder because not only are the Jews not responsible for it, but it also shows just what to expect if the Palestinian Arabs ever got their wish for a state to supplant Israel – something these so-called “progressives” wholeheartedly support.
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