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Contents:

• SHOCK, QUTNS AFTER GOME KILLG OF GAY PALTIAN
• GAY PALTIAN BEHEAD AND PARAD THROUGH WT BANK STREETS IN SICKENG DISPLAY
• EXPLORG GAY PALTE

SHOCK, QUTNS AFTER GOME KILLG OF GAY PALTIAN

JERUSALEM (AP) — The severed head and pated torso of a 25-year-old Paltian were disvered on the si of a road the occupied Wt Bank, police said Friday, nfirmg gome tails of a killg that shocked Paltian acunts that the victim, Ahmad Abu Murkhiyeh, was a gay man who feared persecutn for his sexualy and had sought asylum Israel two years ago turned the terrible crime to a socially and polilly explosive se.

GAY PALTIAN BEHEAD AND PARAD THROUGH WT BANK STREETS IN SICKENG DISPLAY

Homosexualy remas eply taboo the Paltian terrori, where tradnal norms play a proment role social and polil life. LGBTQ anizatns and emergency shelters helpg gay asylum seekers said they knew he was gay and sperate to pe the Paltian terrori, where he was a target.

Ra Petrenko, founr of Al Ba Al Mokhtalef, an Israeli gay rights anizatn terg to the Arab muny, said Abu Murkhiyeh’s fear was distct when they met 2020. “The suatn was horrible for all of them, ” said Ibtisam Mara’ana-Menuh, an Arab member of the Israeli Knset who petned the Supreme Court to grant gay Paltian asylum seekers work equently promot s tolerance on issu of sexual orientatn, spe the rejectn of homosexualy ultra-Orthodox Jewish muni.

But Tel Aviv is proud of s reputatn as a top statn for gay and lbian travelers. Paltian Authory police 2019 barred gay and transgenr rights group om holdg events the Wt Bank and threatened to arrt participants. Gay people wh Israel’s Arab mory have also faced vlence and ostracism their Bank Paltians like Abu Murkhiyeh have long have crossed to Israel to live openly.

EXPLORG GAY PALTE

A gay Paltian was kidnapped and behead this week and his body parad through a Paltian neighborhood a sickeng vio that unrsr the danger LGBTQ people face at the hands of Islamic extremists.