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JI7

(93,900 posts)
Sat Oct 8, 2022, 06:44 PM Oct 2022

Gay Palestinian Man Kidnapped from Israel and Killed in West Bank

He was in Israel waiting to try to get Asylum in Canada becsuse of the threats.


Palestinian police have arrested a suspect in the killing of a 25-year-old man after his body was found decapitated in the occupied West Bank.

LGBTQ groups in Israel, where Ahmad Abu Marhia was seeking asylum, say he had received threats because he was gay.

LGBTQ groups say he had spent two years in Israel waiting on an asylum claim to flee abroad after receiving death threats from within his community.

Israeli media quote friends of the victim as saying he was kidnapped to the West Bank.


https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-63174835.amp

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Gay Palestinian Man Kidnapped from Israel and Killed in West Bank (Original Post) JI7 Oct 2022 OP
working link is... CurtEastPoint Oct 2022 #1
That is awful. DemocratSinceBirth Oct 2022 #2
For all its many, MANY faults, Israel is very pro-LGBT. sir pball Oct 2022 #3
For all its faults, Israel has many, MANY virtues DavidDvorkin Oct 2022 #4

sir pball

(5,350 posts)
3. For all its many, MANY faults, Israel is very pro-LGBT.
Sat Oct 8, 2022, 08:55 PM
Oct 2022

Moreso than America, for sure.

Also, I hear Pride in Tel Aviv is one of the most epic parties there is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Israel

DavidDvorkin

(20,683 posts)
4. For all its faults, Israel has many, MANY virtues
Sat Oct 8, 2022, 09:05 PM
Oct 2022

The same can not be said for Hamas or the Palestinian Authority.

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