‘Collaborator’ killed after son tortured

THE son of the first known Palestinian woman to be executed as an Israeli collaborator said yesterday gunmen tortured him until he invented a story about his mother’s involvement in a militant’s death.

Ikhlas Khouli, a 35-year-old mother of seven, was shot dead on Saturday after being seized from her home in the West Bank city of Tulkarem.

Bakir Khouli, 17, lifted up his T-shirt at his one-room house to reveal black and blue marks he said were made by electrical wires shortly before his mother was killed.