Abused Women's Rights: Palestinian Arab vs. Israeli Arab
Israel Intervenes to Capture PA Killer by Maayana Miskin Israeli forces entered territory policed by the Palestinian Authority this week in order to arrest a PA man accused of murdering his wife, an Israeli citizen. Israeli forces usually enter areas policed by the PA only to conduct counterterrorism operations, and leave fighting crime to the PA. The detainee, whose name has not been released, lived with his wife Nadra Samara Badran in the PA-controlled city of Shechem until two months ago, when Nadra fled from her husband to her hometown, the Israeli Arab city of Tira. Nadra, 29 years old and a mother to four, filed a complaint against her husband with Israeli police, accusing him of violently attacking her. Since the husband is not an Israeli citizen, police transferred the complaint to PA Police and asked them to restrain the husband. The complaint was ineffective: On October 29, just over a month after Nadra escaped her husband, he managed to infiltrate Tira, where he found his wi...