Man killed in Acre shooting potentially linked to underworld slayings
Victim, 57, said to be unintended target in attack, which may have been attempt to avenge double homicide in Nahariya earlier this month amid bloody clan feud

A 57-year-old man was shot and killed in the industrial area of Acre Thursday morning, in an apparent revenge attempt for a double homicide earlier this month.
The victim was named in Hebrew press reports as Acre resident Jamil Khalila.
Khalila died after being rushed to Galilee Medical Center with injuries to multiple organs, hospital spokesman Gal Zeid told The Times of Israel.
Police have opened an investigation into the shooting and are still searching for suspects.
A law enforcement spokesperson said that the circumstances of the incident remained unclear.
Hebrew-language news sites surmised that the shooting may have been an attempt to avenge a double homicide in Nahariya earlier this month. It is unlikely that the victim was the shooter’s intended target, the reports speculated.
The two young men murdered in Nahariya, Mustafa and Salem Rubai, were residents of Acre and belonged to a family embroiled in a deadly dispute with another family in the city.
The two were shot in an apartment in the city center on January 12. Police have yet to solve the murder.
Violent crime in Arab society has steeply risen over the past two years, claiming 230 lives over the course of 2024, according to the Abraham Initiatives organization, which tracks the number of Arab murder victims.
The Acre killing marked the 10th killing in the Arab community so far this year, outpacing 2024, the group said.
“2025, too, has started with violence,” the nonprofit said in a statement earlier this month. “The police’s inability and unwillingness to enforce the law in Arab cities is a continuing failure of the government. This is the third year in a row that this phenomenon has not received a response from the leadership.”