Police announce the arrest of four suspects in the deadly shooting in the northern Arab town of Umm al-Fahm this morning.
The statement doesn’t identify the suspects, say where they were arrested, or specify a suspected motive for the shooting, which killed a man and moderately wounded another.
The Umm al-Fahm shooting took place shortly after another man was shot dead in the Arab town of Deir Hanna, also in northern Israel.
The Abraham Initiatives coexistence watchdog names the men killed in Deir Hanna and Umm al-Fahm as Muhammad Halayla and Muhammad Kassab, respectively.
Their deaths bring the number of Arab homicide victims in Israel this year to 152, an 18% increase over the 128 Arab homicide victims by this time in 2025, which was the community’s bloodiest year on record, according to the watchdog.
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