A woman in her 40s was shot dead in her car last night in Kafr Qasim, first responders say. Police arrested two relatives on suspicion of involvement.
Medics arrived in the central Arab city to find the victim without any signs of life in a car outside her house. They pronounced her dead at the scene.
The victim is identified by Arabic outlets as Nihaya Jawabra. One of the detained suspects is the woman’s 17-year-old son, Kan reports.
She is the second woman from Kafr Qasim to be killed this year in an apparent femicide, after the alleged murder of Marlene al-Touri by her ex-husband last month.
Ten Arab Israeli women and one young girl have been killed so far this year, as the homicide rate continues to soar in Arab townships.
They are among 117 members of the minority killed over the course of 2026, according to data from the Abraham Initiatives coexistence group.
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