Demographics

Mrs. Abu Ghanem said even if her son, who she says has an illegitimate child with a 17-year-old Jewish woman in another town, had not killed her daughter, she did not want him back. “Give me 10 years for my soul to dry out,” she said.

Mrs. Abu Ghanem, 52, had nine children before her husband left 16 years ago to move in with a new wife in an apartment below hers. He now has 11 more children, none currently in school though education is supposed to be compulsory from age 5.

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