A teenage boy was fatally shot in Lod, police say, taking the death toll in the Arab community to five since last night.
The 14-year-old Ramle resident was shot and critically injured, alongside two others. All three were taken to hospital, where doctors pronounced his death.
Earlier this morning, a 46-year-old man was stabbed to death in Abu Ghosh, likely by his former brother-in-law, according to police and medical sources. 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.
Just after midnight on Monday, three people were gunned down near a kiosk in the northern town of Abu Snan.
Since the start of 2025, 28 Arab Israelis have died as a result of violent crime.
Newly minted National Security Minister Haim Katz, in charge of Israel’s police since far-right Otzma Yehudit leader Itamar Ben-Gvir’s resignation from the government, currently holds three other ministerial portfolios.
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