WDG, the Washington Blade’s media partner in Israel, wrote this article. The decapitated body of Ahmed Hacham Hamdi Abu Markhieh was discovered in Hebron on Oct.
5 with his head cut off and lying beside it. Marakhia, a 25-year-old Palestinian, has been living in Israel for the past two years.
He fled after he was persecuted and received death threats because of his sexual orientation. Rumors about Markhieh’s death started to circulate after a video on social media showed his body lying on the side of the road.
Markhieh’s friends in Israel, who feared for his safety after he did not arrive at work in the morning, immediately linked his disappearance to the video and assumed that the body on the video was Marakhia’s body.