Stabbing over wedding (archives)
צילום: גבי מנשה
Brothers charged with murdering sister over marriage
Two Umm al-Fahm residents indicted on suspicion that they stabbed their sister to death for attempting to marry older man
Two brothers from the city of Umm al-Fahm are being charged with the murder of their sister because they didn't want her to marry an older man. They were indicted Monday by the Haifa District Court.
The Haifa District Prosecutor's Office claims that the sister, 32-year old Hilala Mahmid, informed her family that she intended to marry an older man who had been previously betrothed, and was already a grandfather.
Muhammad, 30, and Khaled, 26, objected to the marriage despite their parents' approval.
They threatened to murder their sister if she decided to go ahead with the wedding, but "despite the threats," the indictment stated, "the parents of the deceased agreed with the groom that the wedding would take place."
The event was scheduled for the evening of October 9. That afternoon, the prosecution alleges, the brothers asked their sister into a room to talk with her.
"The brothers and sister went into the room where they grabbed the deceased, took out their knives with the intent to kill her and stabbed her twice on the right side of her chest, once on the left side, and another time in her back," the indictment stated.
Khaled Mahmid denied the allegations, claiming via his attorney that he had attempted to save his sister. Muhammad Mahmid said that his confession had been obtained by unlawful means.
