Four women were killed in the Palestinian territories this week in an apparent series of feminicides.
A young Palestinian man from the West Bank city of Qalqiliya was accused of killing his two sisters on Thursday. The bodies of Sima and Iyman Al-Adil were found in the family's home Thursday afternoon.
Eyewitnesses said the two women appeared to have been shot. The motive behind the killings is unclear.
The Palestinian General Intelligence Service announced the suspected murderer admitted to killing his sisters after he was arrested. The suspect said his motivation was to protect so-called "family dignity."
Separately, Palestinian medical officials in Gaza City discovered the body of a female university student near Salah Addin Street Thursday.
The officials said the woman, the daughter of a university professor, had disappeared three days ago. They said the woman had been shot several times.
Iyhab Al-Ghussain, a spokesperson for the de facto Interior Ministry in the Gaza Strip, said the security forces are investigating the apparent killing.
Also on Thursday Palestinian security forces in Qalqiliya announced the arrest of suspects in the apparent killing of a twenty-nine-year-old woman named Wafa Wahdan, who was found dead on Monday near a landfill.
I already had reported on the last woman, so the Palestinian Arab self-death count for the year has now climbed to 561, with 37 of them being women and 40 dead children.