<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Search engines have witnessed a huge demand in recent hours to identify Zainab Matouk, who was 33 years old, and the real cause of her death, as Zainab Matouk topped social media platforms and search engines worldwide, as citizens in the Arab world showed great interest in her.</span></p><h2 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:hsl(180,75%,60%);">Who is Zain Maatouk?</span> </h2><figure class="image"><img style="aspect-ratio:947/1058;" src="https://cdn.sbisiali.com/news/images/973ac656-19a2-40e0-afd1-eebdb47b43c2.jpeg" alt="Zainab Maatouk was not raped" ></figure><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Zainab Maatouq, a hotel employee in Lebanon, was assaulted by one of her co-workers, who beat her until she died after the assault. Her body was placed in the warehouse where she was found in a very critical condition by security personnel. She was immediately transferred to the university hospital. The American woman was in Beirut, but unfortunately she passed away.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The victim, who was 33 years old, was not raped as was rumored, but rather the perpetrator violently assaulted her and beat her severely before throwing her in the hotel storeroom, according to what some sources reported. Sources from the family conveyed confirmations from the forensic medical report that there were no traces of sexual assault following the examination. On the body, however, the beating that Maatouq was subjected to was very severe, especially in the head.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Also according to the sources, Zainab Abdo Maatouq remained alive inside the hotel warehouse for a certain period before she was discovered by one of the hotel workers, where she was immediately transferred to the American University Hospital in Beirut in a critical condition, but unfortunately she died.</span></p><figure class="media"><oembed url="https://youtu.be/PflWY96pZdM?t=2"></oembed></figure><h2 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:hsl(180,75%,60%);">The reason for the killing and violence of Zainab Maatouq</span> </h2><figure class="image"><img style="aspect-ratio:1045/607;" src="https://cdn.sbisiali.com/news/images/39ad2d04-6ef3-4897-8ffa-e0e02f6a6e4f.png" alt="Zainab Maatouq" ></figure><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">As for the cause of the crime, the available information indicates that it is linked to what Matouk discovered by Barghash inside the hotel, which was filming the hotel’s female guests, which prompted him to kill her to protect his secret. According to sources and local media, Matouk was on her way to work on Saturday morning when the crime occurred in the hotel.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Reports indicate that a sharp argument took place between her and Barghash in the lobby before the dispute moved to the service room, where she was suddenly attacked and subjected to strong blows that resulted in internal bleeding in her head, which led to her death. After his identity was revealed, the perpetrator fled.</span></p><h2 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:hsl(180,75%,60%);">Who is the killer of Zainab Maatouq?</span> </h2><figure class="image"><img style="aspect-ratio:828/704;" src="https://cdn.sbisiali.com/news/images/7393cc78-2639-4053-ab10-257df57c312b.png" alt="Zainab Maatouk's killer was not raped" ></figure><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Lebanese investigations showed that the Syrian Khalaf Bargash, who has disappeared since last Saturday, is the main suspect in the case of the murder of the young Lebanese woman, Zainab Maatouq. Bargash was working as a cleaner at the Universel Residence Hotel in the Raouche area of Beirut, where Maatouq was working.</span></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">For his part, the Public Security Forces raided an apartment inhabited by the perpetrator in the Al-Awza’i suburb, and members of the victim’s family confirmed that they discovered that Barghash was violating the privacy of the guests by using his phone to spy, as he was installing secret cameras to photograph the hotel guests, which led them to believe that he had killed her in revenge.</span><br></p>