Hours before killing, Nazarenes marched against domestic violence

By Jack Khoury (Haaretz)
Hours before the the murder of Hala Faisal-Salam, at the hand of her husband Basel Salam, her father in law, Ali Salam, the deputy mayor of Nazareth, marched at a demonstration against violence toward women in the northern Arab city.
Also at the march was Sheikh Amin Kana’an of the village of Yerka. His daughter, Manar, was murdered in her home in the village three months ago.
The suspect in the murder is her husband.
“I saw it as my obligation as a father bereaved of his daughter in tragic and cruel circumstances, through no fault of her own, and as a man of religion to go to the demonstration and participate in this outcry and say ‘Enough! Enough of the violence and the murder of women,'” Kana’an, well known in Druze and Arab circles, said.
About 1,000 people participated the demonstration on Saturday, mobilized by about 30 women’s organizations and human rights committees, and attended by Arab mayors and the Higher Arab Monitoring Committee.
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