Tamra residents protest outside police station after shots fired near elementary school

Arab residents of Tamra protested outside a police station in the city today after shots rang out near an elementary school in the northern city, as Arab citizens continue to take to the streets to demonstrate over what they say is a failure to enforce against violent crime.

The shooting occurred while school was in session this morning, alarming students and teachers. No injuries were reported.

In footage of the incident picked up by a security camera, the assailant appears to have been targeting a car passing nearby.

The school’s parents association held a demonstration outside the institution shortly after the incident, which soon turned into a march to the local police station in Baqa al-Gharbiya.

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Around a hundred parents and children stood on the side of the road demanding law enforcement put more effort into curbing daily shootings, as two boys held a banner that read in Arabic: “It is the government’s responsibility to uproot crime.”

Lama Diab Othman, a member of the parents association, calls the shooting a “red line” and says that such violence cannot go unchecked.

“When the gunfire reaches the school gates, where our children from first to sixth grade are present, we cannot go on with our normal lives. The danger has become present even within educational institutions,” she tells the Arab48 news outlet.

Since the beginning of the year, 21 Arab citizens have been killed in criminal violence, including a 37-year-old man who was shot dead last night in Nazareth.

The past week has seen intensifying protests over the issue, including a march through Sakhnin that drew over tens of thousands to the northern city.