Report: Forensics experts looking at Israa Gharib honor killing have resigned because of PA interference in case

Al Hadath reports that three forensic specialists submitted their resignations to the Palestinian Authority on Sunday morning.

All three were involved in writing the forensics report on the horrific death of Israa Gharib, the Bethlehem woman who was apparently killed by her family for making a selfie video of herself with her boyfriend in a public place before they were officially engaged.

The doctors who submitted their resignations were: Dr. Moayad Bader, forensic specialist in Ramallah, Dr. Muhannad Shweiki, forensic specialist in Jerusalem, and Dr. Muhannad Jaber, forensic specialist in Hebron. All three areas are involved in the Abu Dis forensic institute.

Al Hadath's sources say that the doctors resigned over interference with their jobs by the Palestinian government. They are supervised by political appointees who have no expertise in the field, some of whom have no education beyond a bachelor's degree in Islamic education. Yet they control people whose jobs require high sensitivity and secrecy.

These supervisors were placed there by the Undersecretary of the Ministry of Justice, Mohammed Abu Sondos.

Abu Sondos denied that the doctors were involved in Gharib's autopsy, but not that they were involved in the writing of the autopsy report.

The doctors charge that some of the abuses in the department directly affected their work and contributed to delay some of the reports, including that of Israa Gharib.

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