In two violent incidents in Arab communities on Friday morning, the body of a 45-year-old woman was found inside a vehicle near the Yasif Junction in northern Israel on Friday morning, hours after a 60-year-old man was shot dead in Baqa al-Gharbiya.
The man was shot while in a car, and Magen David Adom paramedics pronounced him dead on the scene.
Ynet news reported that the man killed in the incident was Samich Abu Moch, a member of a local crime organization.
Separately, MDA paramedics found a woman’s body in a running car in an open area in the western Galilee in northern Israel.
Police opened investigation into the circumstances of the two deaths.
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The incidents came as an unprecedented wave of violent crime that racked Arab Israeli communities throughout 2023 appeared to continue unabated into the new year.
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