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Gay Palestinian Man Kidnapped from Israel and Killed in West Bank
He was in Israel waiting to try to get Asylum in Canada becsuse of the threats.
Palestinian police have arrested a suspect in the killing of a 25-year-old man after his body was found decapitated in the occupied West Bank.
LGBTQ groups in Israel, where Ahmad Abu Marhia was seeking asylum, say he had received threats because he was gay.
LGBTQ groups say he had spent two years in Israel waiting on an asylum claim to flee abroad after receiving death threats from within his community.
Israeli media quote friends of the victim as saying he was kidnapped to the West Bank.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-63174835.amp
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