Man shot dead in Tamra was victim of revenge attack, says city resident

A man shot dead today in Tamra was killed in an act of revenge, a city resident tells The Times of Israel, after the victim’s two sons were implicated in last week’s lethal shooting of a 55-year-old woman.

Jamil Mahmoud Diab, a 60-year-old electrician, was found dead this afternoon after being shot in the head by unknown assailants. Police opened an investigation, but have not yet arrested any suspects.

A resident who knew the slain man says that his two sons were arrested in connection to a lethal shooting Thursday night, which left 55-year-old Wafaa Awad, a mother to six and grandmother to 18, dead in her home.

Awad had been hanging laundry on the balcony of her home when gunmen shot at the family’s car, then towards the house. A bullet struck her upper body, killing her.

The slain woman was killed in a shooting linked to organized crime, not a blood feud between the Awad and Diab families, but tensions are now running high between the two families in the wake of the bloodshed.

Arab society witnessed three homicide deaths today, after a father and son were killed on the outskirts of Umm al-Fahm this morning. Diab was shot dead hours later, making him the 51st person killed since the start of 2026, as a wave of violent crime continues to plague Israel’s Arab minority.