2023-08-27 08:00:15
Last update: 27.08.2023 | 9:00
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Killed and 6 injured in 2 shooting incidents in Arab communities yesterday (Saturday) and this morning. A 30-year-old man was shot to death this morning in Sakhenin. MDA medics gave him medical treatment and evacuated him to the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, where he was pronounced dead.
6 people were injured yesterday by gunfire in Kfar Kana, of which 2 were seriously injured, 3 moderately and 1 lightly. The MDA team that arrived at the scene provided them with medical treatment when they had a penetrating injury and evacuated them to the Italian Hospital in Nazareth and the North Medical Center (Foria) in Tiberias.
Police officers were rushed to the scene, began searching for the suspects in the shooting and began investigating the circumstances of the case. The police said that the background to the incident is a criminal conflict between two families.
Last Tuesday, four people were killed in a shooting in Abu Sanan, one of them was a candidate for the headship of the local council in the settlement. On the second of this week, the CEO of the municipality of Tira was shot and killed. Following the events, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened the ministerial committee to combat crime in Arab society, where it was decided that the Shin Bet would assist the police in preventing violence in cases related to the protection of elected officials in Arab communities.
157 Arabs lost their lives in 2023 in circumstances related to violence and crime, according to the tracking data of the Abraham Initiatives Association. 139 of the victims were shot to death, and 79 of them were under the age of 30.
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