BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — The brutal killing of a battered wife in front of horrified witnesses in an open-air Bethlehem market prompted angry accusations Wednesday that Palestinian police and courts ignore violence against women.
Nancy Zaboun, a 27-year-old mother of three, had her throat slashed Monday after seeking a divorce from her abusive husband of 10 years. The husband was arrested at the scene and is the prime suspect, West Bank officials said.

The case reverberated across Palestinian society because of the brutality of the attack. However, violence against women continues to be tolerated — similar to attitudes in other parts of the Arab world — and women's rights activists say abusive husbands are rarely punished.

Zaboun was regularly beaten by her husband, 32-year-old Shadi Abedallah, at times so severely that she had to be hospitalized, said Haula al-Azraq, who runs a West Bank counseling center where Zaboun sought help.

Even so, Abedallah was never arrested. Police only made him sign pledges he would stop hitting his wife, said al-Azraq, adding that Abedallah himself is a former police officer. Zaboun was killed after attending a hearing in her divorce case. She was walking on the steep paths of an open-air market — not far from the Church of the Nativity, marking the traditional birthplace of Jesus — when she was fatally slashed.
On Wednesday, several dozen women staged a memorial for Zaboun in the Bethlehem market alley where she was killed, holding signs and chanting, "No to violence against women." One sign read, "Shame on us Palestinians for killing our women."

Women have scored some breakthroughs in traditional Palestinian society in recent years, including gaining a greater role in public life. However, tribal laws still remain strong, and violence against women is generally viewed by police as an internal family matter.

Al-Azraq said violence against women appears to be on the rise because of a deteriorating economic situation and because abusers don't fear punishment. Last year, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas signed a decree that ended a long-standing practice of treating killings within a family with leniency. Justice Minister Ali Mohanna said such killings are now treated as any other slaying, and claims of assailants that they were protecting "family honor" are no longer taken into account.

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That's Islam! And we are expected to tolerate that faith. Too bad we cannot abduct her husband and horrifically beat HIM to death in front of a lot of people and maybe Youtube his beating! Eye for an eye here!

I have witnessed many US women defending muslim womens right to be beaten and murdered.

You have just painted all of Islam with the same brush and that does not apply to any country or religion.

As regard the husband ...you can have him for a day and do what you like with him...you alone with him...OK

Unless you have READ a Quran you really have not got a lot of room to talk. If the core of a faith is a book, and that book is the moral template they go by, and it lists a host of behaviors that run contrary to tolerance, then yes, I am using a paint sprayer and not a brush to paint Islam. If one color fits all then well, one color fits all and in Islam's case do not go citing this fallacious line. Egypt, Indonesia, Pakistan. They all act the same basically. And again if the core of the faith is the Quaran well then, GUESS WHAT! NO MATTER WHERE YOU LIVE IF YOU CLAIM TO BE ISLAMIC THEN ANYTHING THAT PERSON SAYS IS A LIE NO MATTER WHAT THEY SAY BECAUSE OF THEIR OWN BIBLE AND NOTHING ELSE! Again read a Quran. It isn't Islamic people I have an issue with, it is the Islamic faith in general I have a serious malfunction with. AS if England and France have not been dealing with their share of Islamic based violence lately within their own boarders.