Leaders of Arab list sign petition against violence

5 March 2015, 4:57 pm

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Head of the Joint (Arab) List Ayman Odeh and fellow MKs Masoud Ganaim, Jamal Zahalka and Ahmad Tibi sign a petition against violence in Arab society.

During a press conference in Taibeh, the leaders of the parties making up the Joint List call on police to confiscate illegally held weapons and to give more substantial funding to the eradication of crime within the Arab community.

Kamal Rayan, director of the Aman Center for a Safe Society, an NGO operating in the Arab sector, tells Israel Radio that since 2000 some 1,050 people were murdered in that community, and 51 were killed during confrontations with Israeli security forces. These statistics, Rayan said, serve as a warning for the entire Arab society.