Femicide is on the rise in Gaza, according to figures from the Women's Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling, a Palestinian civil society group.
Seventeen-year-old Istabraq Baraka fell pregnant soon after her wedding in the Gaza Strip. Three months later her husband killed her.
"She died from a severe beating, which caused bleeding on the brain and lungs and broken ribs," said her mother Nazmiya.
Sitting with her husband Suleiman in a garden in Abassan, near the city of Khan Yunis in the south of the Palestinian territory, the 53-year-old talks at lightning speed about last year's killing of one of her two daughters, as well as the loss of an unborn grandchild.
He laments the slow pace of legal proceedings since his daughter's husband handed himself in to the police shortly after the killing.
"The perpetrator admitted his crime, a year and a month until now and nothing's happened," said the 70-year-old.
Source: Al Monitor