A teen boy was shot to death in the southern town of Arara, police say, marking the second deadly shooting in Israel’s Arab community in hours.
Hebrew media reports list the victim’s age as 14.
Police suspect that the killing took place as part of an ongoing clan feud in the Negev town, which shares a name with a city in Israel’s north.
Police are looking for suspects in the murder, which marks the 105th killing in the Arab community so far this year, according to the Abraham Initiatives, which tracks violence. The tally is significantly than the 88 killings which took place to this point last year, according to the group.
On Wednesday night, a 38-year-old was shot dead in his home in Kafr Qasim, according to police and paramedics, amid an unrelenting crime wave which experts say has worsened considerably over the past two years.
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