14-year-old boy, doctor shot dead, bringing day’s homicide toll in Arab society to 6
Tide of violence keeps rising after triple homicide in Abu Snan, fatal stabbing in Abu Ghosh, with 29 Arab Israelis killed since start of 2025

A doctor was shot dead inside a clinic in Kafr Yasif on Monday evening, hours after a teenage boy was killed in Lod — the fifth and sixth homicide victims within the Arab community since midnight.
Police said the suspects fled the scene after opening fire on their victim, Dr. Abdallah Qasem Awad, a pediatrician from Mazra’a who had been filling in for another doctor at the time.
Paramedics who arrived shortly after the shooting declared Awad dead on the spot. Officers opened an investigation into the incident, but did not immediately arrest any suspects.
Earlier the same day, a teenage boy was fatally shot in Lod.
The 14-year-old Ramle resident was critically injured alongside two others in Pardes Snir neighborhood. All three were taken to the hospital, where doctors pronounced his death.
Since the start of 2025, 29 Arab Israelis have died in violent incidents, more than double the number of Arab homicide victims as of the same point last year.
Monday also saw a 46-year-old man stabbed to death in Abu Ghosh, likely by his former brother-in-law, according to police and medical sources.
Local Arab outlets named the victim as Yaqub Jabr. He succumbed to his wounds at Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem.
Police arrested a suspect, a 31-year-old resident of Ein Rafah, and took him for questioning.

Hours earlier, just after midnight on Monday, three young men were gunned down near a kiosk in the northern town of Abu Snan. The victims’ names are Wajdi Kheir, Haitem Zainati, and Natan Mashlab.
Haaretz reported that the triple homicide was a revenge killing for another murder two weeks prior in the neighboring town of Jadeidi-Makr.
Newly minted National Security Minister Haim Katz, in charge of the Israel Police since far-right Otzma Yehudit leader Itamar Ben-Gvir’s resignation from the government, currently holds three other ministerial portfolios.
The Abraham Initiatives organization, which tracks murder in Arab society, petitioned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday to demand he appoint a permanent national security minister in light of the years-long tide of violence rocking Arab society.
The organization stressed the importance of a “professional, serious” minister who would make eradicating crime the main goal of their position.
“The appointment of Itamar Ben Gvir badly damaged the Arab public’s faith in the police and law enforcement, and the new minister who is appointed must restore that faith,” the letter read.