The lifeless body of a woman was found last night in Kafr Qasim, an Arab city in central Israel, in what police are investigating as a likely homicide.
The deceased, a woman in her 30s named Marlene al-Touri, was extracted from a vehicle by Magen David Adom paramedics at around 9:30 p.m.
Police launched an investigation into the crime. They suspect her killing is linked to a so-called “blood feud” in the city. No suspects have yet been arrested.
With al-Touri’s death, 88 members of Israel’s Arab minority have been killed in crime-related circumstances this year, six of them women.
The previous night, a 61-year-old man, Ziad Hussein Abu Naji, was killed in Nazareth while he was fixing his car outside his home. According to the Ynet news site, he was shot more than twenty times from close range by a man who hopped the gate encircling his house.
Police are still investigating Abu Naji’s killing and have not yet arrested any suspects in the case.
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