Femicide

Japanese PM Takaichi protests to US after Marine accused of murder in Okinawa

Lance Corporal Devin Jacob Ballard, 20, is suspected of killing Anna Yagi, 39, in a hotel in Naha, the capital of the southernmost prefecture, on Saturday.

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Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi delivers her policy speech at the parliament, in Tokyo, Japan, October 5, 2026.
United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences, Reem Alsalem (L) and UN Human Rights Officer Orlagh McCann (R) address a press conference in Ankara on July 27, 2022.

UN Rapporteur's report accuses Israel of 'femicide,' omits Jewish victims

A UN report on violence against mothers presents disputed allegations against Israel as fact while excluding Israeli victims of murder, captivity and sexual violence.

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Jason Blaze Odeh arrives for a court hearing on the extension of his detention at the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court on September 04, 2022.

Jason Blaze Odeh convicted of aggravated murder of Yelena Gerenberg

A three-judge panel headed by Judge Ami Kobo unanimously accepted the prosecution’s position and rejected Odeh’s account of the killing, including his claim that Gerenberg had provoked him.

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An Iranian woman walks past a piece of street art in Tehran on June 3, 2026.

Iran reports three femicide cases in one week amid domestic violence study

Three reported femicides in Iran in one week have renewed attention on domestic violence, with a new Iranian study finding that economic hardship can increase violence against women.

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24-year-old woman shot and killed in Haifa overnight

The murder of Hanan Abu Hait comes on the heels of more than 20 other deadly incidents in the last two weeks alone.

MAY 8, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Police investigate the scene of a murder of a 24-year-old woman in Haifa on May 8, 2023.

Is Israel failing to protect its most vulnerable citizens?

SOCIAL AFFAIRS: 68 violent murders have been carried out in Israeli-Arab communities, four of them against women.

MAY 5, 2023BySHIRA SILKOFF
A CEREMONY in memory of women murdered by men, as part of International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women events in Tel Aviv, last year.

Woman and two infant sons murdered in Taiba, husband arrested

The victim's husband, Mohammed Massaroa, has been arrested on suspicion of murdering his wife and children.

MAY 1, 2023ByARIELLA MARSDEN, SHIRA SILKOFF
Israel Police on the scene of the murder of a woman and her two infant children in Taiba.

Bedouin woman stabbed to death in southern Israel in 'honor killing'

Since the beginning of the year, 49 Arabs have been killed in incidents of crime and violence in Israel.

APRIL 16, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Police at the scene of a murder of a resident of Kuseife, April 16, 2023

Woman found dead in Rehovot, husband arrested

Social services said that husband was not known to them for any violence toward his wife in the past.

APRIL 12, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Israel Police.

'Dont Passover us': Four arrested as Israeli women's group begins graffiti campaign

This activity was designed to evoke the dramatic moment in the Passover story at the conclusion of the Ten Plagues, the death of the first-born.

APRIL 10, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
"Do not pass over us" is written in red by LOTEM anti-gender-violence activists.

Eight women in three months: Adisi Albana murdered in her home

The woman's partner is the key suspect in the case after he turned himself in during the night.

MARCH 24, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Outside the apartment in Kiryat Ata where the 29-year-old woman was murdered on March 24, 2023.

Jerusalem woman in serious condition, ex allegedly set her on fire

Woman's ex suspected of setting her aflame, committing suicide right after

MARCH 1, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Medics and Fire and Rescue units attend to an emergency in Gilo, a neighborhood in Jerusalem.

Israeli NGO appeal to gov't for immediate action against rising femicide rates

In nearly 80% of femicide cases in 2022, the woman was murdered by someone close to them.

FEBRUARY 23, 2023ByJOANIE MARGULIES
Names of women murdered by their husbands hang on billboards in Jerusalem on June 16, 2020, as part of protest actions to raise awareness of violence against women.

Israeli murders wife in Lod, second femicide in two weeks in city

The police were able to locate the suspect, who had initially fled the scene, in a crashed vehicle after hitting a police car near his home.

FEBRUARY 12, 2023ByMERAV COHEN/WALLA!, YUVAL BAGNO/MAARIV
An Israel Police officer is seen arresting a man on a highway in an illustrative