The violence in the Arab sector. Early in the morning, a 50-year-old man was murdered in Jisr az-Zarqa. He was shot to death at the entrance of his home. The police state: "Initial investigation raises suspicion that the background to the event is criminal. Police forces arrived at the scene and began extensive searches concurrently with an investigation opened to examine the circumstances of the event."
Paramedics from Magen David Adom (MDA) who arrived at the scene found him lifeless and pronounced him dead. MDA paramedic Yosef Naharin stated: "We saw the man lying unconscious, without a pulse and without breath. We performed medical assessments, but his injury was critical, and we had to determine his death."
In the Abraham Initiatives organization, they report that this is the 146th murder case of Arab citizens in Israel since the beginning of the year, compared to 67 Arabs during the same period last year.
Out of the victims, 129 were shot to death; 78 of the victims were under the age of 30; 8 of the murdered individuals were women.
