Arab party leader condemns Beersheba terror attack

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6 October 2024, 4:48 pm

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Gianluca Pacchiani is the Arab affairs reporter for The Times of Israel

United Arab List chair MK Mansour Abbas leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, Jerusalem, on February 19, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The leader of the Arab Islamist Ra’am party condemns the deadly terror attack in Beersheba in which a young woman was killed.

“Today a heinous crime was committed in Beersheba against innocent civilians. We condemn the attack, especially since the perpetrator is an Arab citizen from the Bedouin community in the Negev,” MK Mansour Abbas writes in Hebrew on X.

“This is not the way of Arab citizens who have shown civic, moral and legal commitment and abhorred any type of violence, and rejected any attempt to be dragged into taking part in acts of political violence,” he adds.