Man in 40s and his 13-year-old nephew shot to death at Umm al-Fahm party
Apparently against backdrop of local dispute, double murder is the latest in series of shootings to rock a northern Arab-Israeli city flush with weapons
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A man in his 40s and his 13-year-old nephew were shot to death in the Arab-Israeli city of Umm al-Fahm on Tuesday, the latest in a series of violent crimes to rock the northern city.
A third man was lightly injured in the attack and was transferred to the Emek Hospital in Afula.
The Ynet news site named the elder victim as Shafik Abu Makled and the teen as Farsan Abu Makled.
The shooting took place at a party held in the run-up to a family wedding.
Hebrew media reports said initial indications pointed to a row between young residents as the background to the shooting.
ירי בוצע לעבר משתתפים בהכנות לחתונה בעיר אום אלפחם על רקע סכסוך,4 אנשים נפצעו מבינם 2 פצועים קשה.המשטרה פתחה בחקירת האירוע pic.twitter.com/zp9J9I4Zpn
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The city of Umm al-Fahm has suffered a wave of violent incidents recently.
Earlier this month, Sheik Mohammad Sa’adeh, 45 was fatally shot as he he left the city’s al-Tawhid Mosque.
A relative of Sa’adeh was murdered a year ago and a brother of that victim was seriously injured in another recent shooting.
In a separate incident, an unidentified 25-year-old man was shot and killed in Umm al-Fahm in September.
Flooded with illegal weapons, some Arab-Israeli cities have become hotbeds of crime, in a trend that Arab-Israeli lawmakers say the Israel Police is reluctant to combat. In 2015, 59 percent of murders in Israel took place in the Arab community; Arab-Israelis represent only 20% of the national population.
The Times of Israel Community.