On the day after her high school graduation party, Henriette Karra, 17, confided in a relative her plans to become a Muslim for her boyfriend.
Henriette, an Arab Israeli, knew that her Christian family in Ramle, a city in central Israel, would be furious. Her parents had made it clear during Henriette’s year of dating her Muslim boyfriend, also an Arab Israeli, that they considered the relationship a shame to the family.
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“The school knew about the problem, the neighbors knew about the problem,” Samah Salaime, founding director of Arab Women in the Center, said in an interview with The Washington Post. “The painful thing is she complained. She was in the police station a week before she died.”
Salaime, whose organization focuses on combating gender-based violence against women, has met with the teenager’s relatives and community members to learn more about her case. She said the killing underscored the problem of widespread violence against women, including a string of killings of Israeli-Arab women.
Arabs make up half the women murdered in Israel every year, Salaime told The Post, even though Arabs make up only 20 percent of the population.
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