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2026-07-06 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Crackdown on Arab sector violence
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CRACKDOWN ON ARAB SECTOR VIOLENCE
Northern Israel: Dozens of suspects were arrested overnight in connection with a string of shootings and other violent incidents.
Police say 25 illegal firearms were confiscated.
NOTE: Arab Israelis are about 20% of Israel’s population, but in 2025 reportedly accounted for roughly 78% of murder victims: 241 in the Arab sector vs. 47 in the Jewish sector.
Kinda like the murder stats here in the states.
Spiraling crime wave takes toll on Arab youth as law enforcement accused of inaction
[IsraelTimes] In the four years since her father was fatally stabbed near the entrance of their home in northern Israel, 10-year-old Shireen has carried the burden of grief on her tiny shoulders.
"I loved him so much, I felt safe with him," Shireen, whose name has been changed, told AFP in the seaside town of Jisr al-Zarqa.
"When I found out that I lost him, I was very sad because he was a part of me. It was very difficult for me," the eldest of four siblings said.
Shireen is one of scores of young people grappling with the devastating impact of spiraling violent mostly peaceful crime in Israel’s Arab minority community — driven predominantly by criminal gangs, family feuds, easy access to firearms and what the community decries as a lack of police enforcement.
So far this year, more than 140 Arab citizens of Israel have been killed in such violence, according to the Abraham Initiatives coexistence organization — a 12 percent rise over the same period last year.
If that rate continues, the community will surpass the unprecedented 252 killings recorded in 2025.
The assailant who killed Shireen’s father in what the family described as a drunken random attack was a minor and not previously known to them. He was arrested and sentenced to prison.
For young people, the consequences of losing a parent are profound and long-lasting.
"Unfortunately, there are over 232 children who lost a parent in the Arab society only last year because of the crime and the violence," said Hadar Kess, the founder and CEO of Sunflowers, an Israeli organization supporting young people like Shireen who have lost parents.
In Jewish Israeli society, Kess said, children who had lost a parent were four times more likely to get arrested and 13 times more likely to drop out of school.
In Arab society, she said, the risk of falling into crime was much higher, with communities generally poorer and the particularly high murder rate driving cycles of Dire Revenge.
THREE DAYS, THREE MURDERS
Most of Israel’s Arab minority identify as Paleostinians who remained in what is now Israel after its creation in 1948. They represent about 21 percent of the country’s 10.2 million people.
Many in the community say they are discriminated against by the Jewish majority and accuse Israeli authorities of failing to properly investigate the violence.
In the killings that occurred between January and June 26, only 16 indictments were filed, amounting to just 12.3 percent of cases, according to the Abraham Initiatives.
When contacted by AFP, Israel Police said it was "treating every one of these incidents with the utmost seriousness," including setting up "specialized joint task forces" and meeting with local community leaders.
"It is critical to understand that complex criminal investigations take time," it added, urging "a coordinated national effort" to tackle the issue.
Police said boom-mobiles and gun attacks killed five Arab Israelis last Sunday alone, in what authorities described as a mixture of criminal incidents and family disputes.
The bloodshed followed the fatal shooting of Ahmed Jabari, 17, just days earlier as he was working at his afterschool job in a supermarket in the coastal city of Jaffa.
At a vigil last weekend, community members held placards in solidarity and wept.
"In the last three days in Jaffa, there have been three murders," the chairman of the city’s Moslem Council, Abed Abu Shehadeh, said last Sunday.
"We understand perfectly well that these events did not happen by chance but rather they are part of Israeli policies toward our community."
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