RAMLA, Israel — The Abu Ghanem women are buried just inside the main gate of the old Muslim cemetery, eight in the last seven years.

Reem eloped with a lover to escape an arranged marriage. Her brothers, one a pediatrician, are on trial for murder. Sabrin rests under a bare concrete slab with her name roughly scratched on by hand. She is said to have been killed by a cousin whom she refused to marry. Shirihan, 15, the youngest of the dead women, is also said to have rejected a marriage. Her stepbrothers are suspected of having killed her.

Others lie in crudely marked graves, covered with plain marble or a mound of earth marked with an oval of stones — all a few minutes’ drive from Israel’s gleaming new international airport, here in this hardscrabble town of 64,000 Jews and Arabs.

So-called honor killings among Muslims are a phenomenon across the Middle East, including in Israel, where Arabs, most of them Muslim, make up almost 20 percent of the population. The Israeli police and courts have caught and convicted some of the killers; unlike the laws in some Arab societies, Israel’s do not make allowances for such acts.