Umm al-Fahm man shot dead in northern town, 19th slaying this year
No suspects or motive named as police probe shooting that left 42 year-old man dead, West Bank Palestinian injured, amid relentless crime wave
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A man was shot dead in the northern town of Jadeidi-Makr on Sunday night, police said. No suspects in the slaying were announced.
The victim, named in local reports as Khaled Walid Jabareen, 42, was found critically hurt alongside a 22-year-old Palestinian man from the West Bank.
The second man was moderately hurt. Authorities did not say how the two men were linked.
Jabareen, from the Arab city of Umm al-Fahm, was declared dead after being rushed by medics to the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya.
Police said officers were investigating the killing as a domestic criminal act. Officials did not name a suspect or a possible motive for the killing, the latest slaying in an inexorable crime wave that has gripped the Arab community in recent years, leading to historic levels of bloodshed.
According to the Abraham Initiatives, which tracks violence in the Arab community, 19 Arabs have been killed in homicides in Israel since the start of 2023, 14 of whom are citizens.
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Last year, 116 Arab Israelis were killed in violent incidents, 101 of them by gunfire, the watchdog said.
The surge in violence crime in recent years is seen as driven mainly, but not exclusively, by organized crime.
Arab Israelis say police have failed to crack down on powerful criminal organizations and for years largely ignored the violence, which includes family feuds, mafia turf wars, and attacks on women.
The Times of Israel Community.