Taher Shurfi, a young man in his 20s, a resident of Jaffa, was shot dead recently (Friday) while on Kedem Street. MDA staff evacuated the wounded to Wolfson Hospital, but his death was soon determined. Large police forces from the Yiftach area arrived at the scene and opened an investigation to determine the circumstances of the incident. The background to the incident is criminal.
The young man is not known to the police, but his family is known and at this stage it is not clear whether this is a conflict related to his family or an event that was aimed directly at him. Such police investigators are on the scene, and have begun collecting findings including forensic findings. Police detectives are conducting searches for suspects, and the investigation is ongoing.
Two serious incidents in the Sharon area related to the Arab sector took place in the last hour. One in Kafr Qassem, where a police incident was reported to Hotline 100 during which the city resident was moderately evacuated to Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva. Police forces and forensic investigators are scanning the area and inspecting the scene in an attempt to find out the circumstances of the incident.
Around the same time, the police hotline 100 received a report of a car explosion in Taibeh. Large police forces rushed to the scene and opened an investigation into the circumstances of the incident. As a result of the explosion, the driver of the vehicle, a resident of Taibeh in the 1950s, was injured and was taken to Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba when he was in a critical condition.
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Hours later, a 30-year-old man was moderately injured in a violent incident in Baqa al-Gharbiya. MDA medics and paramedics who were called to the scene, provided him with medical treatment and evacuated him to Hillel Yaffe Hospital when he was suffering from a penetrating injury.