At approximately 11.
00pm on Tuesday 24 March 2009, the body of 31-year-old Ola Hasan Safi arrived at Shuhada Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir Al-Balah town.
She had been stabbed several times.
    According to information available to Al Mezan, at approximately 9.
15pm on the same day, four young men arrived at the house of the victim, which is located in Al-Batani neighborhood in Maghazi refugee camp.
The neighbors then heard screams coming from the house.
The police arrived and took Mrs.
Safi to hospital.
According to the police, Mrs.
Saafi had been stabbed several times in the neck and back.
At approximately 8.
15 am on Wednesday 25 March 2009, the victim’s body was transferred to the pathologist in Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
  Al Mezan lawyers were able to externally examine the body of the victim and they observed blue bruises on her back and several stab wounds in the chest, abdomen, back and neck.
According to preliminary information available to the Center, Mrs.
Safi gave birth less than two weeks before she was killed.
She was in her father’s house because she had problems with her husband, but was not divorced.
According to the Criminal Investigation Bureau, seven members of her family are being held in connection with her killing.
  Al Mezan Center condemns this abhorrent crime which has claimed the life of a mother just days after she gave birth.
Al Mezan calls on the public prosecution to take all necessary steps to reveal the circumstances of this crime and to bring the perpetrators to justice.
Al Mezan stresses that the killing of women must be taken seriously and that in many cases, the framing of an incident as an ‘honor killing’ is used merely as a way for the perpetrators to escape punishment.
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