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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 538

Arab Israelis

Israeli Border Police stand guard at the Damascus Gate to the Old City of Jerusalem as worshippers make their way to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound for the first Friday Prayers of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, March 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)
March 16, 2025, 2:28 pm
Security forces foil plot by Arab Israeli to carry out Jerusalem Old City shooting attack
Uday Mobarsham. 24, said to have consumed Hamas, ISIS content online; suspect bought rifle, began training; Shin Bet says thwarted attack could have caused ‘dangerous escalation’
By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff
Illustrative: A police car at the scene of a crime. (lunopark / Shutterstock.com)
March 16, 2025, 11:27 am
Man shot dead while on way to work in northern Arab town
Nour al-Din Abdelqader, 27, declared dead by paramedics at scene; Arab community death toll reaches 54 since start of year
By Charlie Summers
Islamic State memorabilia among other items found at the Taybeh home of an Arab Israeli accused of planning attacks inspired by the terror group, in a screenshot from video published on March 13, 2025. (Israel Police)
March 13, 2025, 12:34 pm
Arab Israeli man accused of joining Islamic State, spying on troops, plotting attacks
Kamel Nashef, 21, from Taybeh arrested, set to be indicted for contacting and swearing allegiance to ISIS, tipping off West Bank terror operatives to IDF movements
By ToI Staff
Ahmad Nuseir Zahalka (left) and Khaled Jamal Ghanem, who were shot dead in separate incidents in northern Israel, March 9, 2025. (Courtesy)
March 9, 2025, 11:48 am
Two men killed in separate shooting incidents overnight in Arab towns
One man shot dead at cafe in Zemer, another while driving to work, raising community’s 2025 death toll to 50
By Charlie Summers
Ra'am party head MK Mansour Abbas leads a faction meeting, at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on February 10, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 5, 2025, 6:51 pm
Ra’am chief Mansour Abbas says he won’t run for Knesset beyond the next election
Islamist party head, who was the first Arab party leader to join an Israeli ruling coalition, says it’s ‘better to come and try, [then] give an opportunity’ to others
By ToI Staff
Paramedics in Ramle take a shooting victim to a nearby hospital on February 25, 2025. (Magen David Adom)
February 26, 2025, 6:45 pm
Three people shot dead in two separate incidents overnight in Ramle, Nazareth
Nazareth shooting victim’s two brothers were also killed in past incidents, connected to dispute between rival crime families; 45 Arab Israeli murder victims since start of 2025
By Charlie Summers
Arab Israeli comedian Nidal Badarny. (Screenshot from Nidal Badarny's Instagram account)
February 25, 2025, 9:11 pm
Arab Israeli comedian arrested for making jokes about hostages, October 7 invasion
Rights group accuses police of ‘political persecution’ and suppressing freedom of expression of Arab citizens after police threatened venue owners to cancel Nidal Badarny’s show
By Jeremy Sharon
21-year-old Muhammad Odeh, from Jaljulia, an Israeli citizen who has been held in Palestinian Authority detention since September 17, 2024. (Courtesy of Abdallah Odeh)
February 20, 2025, 5:47 pm
Israeli citizen detained for months by Palestinian police, in breach of Oslo Accords
Lawyers for 21-year-old Muhammad Odeh say ongoing detention in Nablus ‘puts his life at risk’ as PA holds him without trial; Israeli authorities unresponsive
By Charlie Summers
The village of Hamaam, in northern Israel, November 29, 2010. (Ori~, Wikimedia Commons)
February 19, 2025, 9:46 am
Teenager shot dead in Hamaam, as violent crime continues to surge
Alaa Tuafra, 18, found dead in his home in northern Israel; 36 Arab Israelis murdered so far this year
By ToI Staff
Israeli military vehicles cross a cement barrier on the border between Israel and the southern Lebanese village of Dhayra, on February 17, 2025 (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)
February 18, 2025, 2:59 pm
Welcome to the era of the buffer zone
Whereas, in the past, Israel has semi-occupied adjacent territory, now it’s creating sterilized strips that potentially redefine its borders
By Amir Ben-David
Damage caused by a car bombing that killed one and injured two others in Taybeh on February 18, 2025. (Screenshot/X)
February 18, 2025, 1:13 pm
Taybeh shop owner killed in bombing, man shot dead in Lod as violent crime spikes
5 Israelis killed in criminal incidents over the past 24 hours
By Charlie Summers
MK Ofer Cassif at the Knesset, November 11, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
February 18, 2025, 12:56 pm
Far-left MK’s tweet comparing Israel to Nazi Germany sparks renewed calls for impeachment
Hadash-Ta’al legislator Ofer Cassif compares Israeli plans for ‘voluntary migration’ from Gaza to flight of Jews from Germany ahead of World War II
By Sam Sokol
Magen David Adom ambulances evacuating wounded people to Soroka Hospital in Beersheba after a brawl in the Bedouin community of Kuseife, July 31, 2016. (YouTube/Times of Israel)
February 10, 2025, 3:09 pm
Woman shot dead in southern Bedouin town
Victim was reportedly visiting her children when masked man shot her; attack comes day after Arab lawmakers implored acting national security minister to deal with violence
By ToI Staff
Police at the scene where a 14-year old boy was shot and killed in Lod, central Israel, February 3, 2025. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
February 3, 2025, 5:11 pm
14-year-old boy, doctor shot dead, bringing day’s homicide toll in Arab society to 6
Tide of violence keeps rising after triple homicide in Abu Snan, fatal stabbing in Abu Ghosh, with 29 Arab Israelis killed since start of 2025
By Charlie Summers
Israeli Arabs protest against violence, organized crime and recent killings among their communities, in the Arab town of Majd al-Krum, northern Israel on October 3, 2019. (David Cohen/Flash90)
February 3, 2025, 6:38 am
Violent killings surge as police crackdown fails to stanch Arab community bloodletting
Arab leaders view crime-fighting tactics as ineffective or worse, accusing law enforcement of not coordinating raid on Umm al-Fahm with local leaders and turning town into an ‘army barrack’
By Charlie Summers
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