The Democrats MK Gilad Kariv accuses National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, who oversees the police, of deliberately ignoring violent crime in Arab society, after seven people were killed over the weekend.
“This is not failure, it is a deliberate and planned act of neglect. Actual policy,” the lawmaker writes on X.
Since Friday evening, seven Arab Israelis have fallen victim to homicide, marking the latest spate of killings in a larger crime wave that has claimed 223 lives this year so far.
Kariv links law enforcement’s failure to deal with Arab-sector crime to Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s roadmap to impose Israeli sovereignty over the West Bank.
“Smotrich is leading the ‘decisive plan’ against the Palestinians. Ben Gvir is leading the ‘decisive plan’ against the Arab citizens of Israel,” he charges.
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