https://www.timesofisrael.com/woman...ctim-of-violence-in-arab-community-this-year/
An 18-year-old woman was shot dead in northern Israel on Friday, becoming the 99th member of the Arab community killed this year in a crime wave that has spiraled out of control since the establishment of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government five months ago.
The killing comes less than 24 hours after a deadly mass shooting in the northern Arab town of Yafa an-Naseriyye that killed five people, one of the worst single acts of violence in recent years.
Police said their initial investigation found that the woman — later identified as Sarit Ahmad — was shot in her upper body while sitting in her car just outside her hometown, the majority-Druze locality Kisra-Sumei in the western Galilee region, by a suspect who managed to flee the scene.
Officers have since opened an investigation and began collecting evidence but indictments of murder cases in the Arab community are exceedingly rare.
Medics were dispatched to the scene and worked to resuscitate Ahmad while rushing her to the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, but doctors were forced to declare her death shortly after she arrived.
According to Hebrew media reports, Ahmad had been threatened in the past over her sexual orientation, and in 2021, two of her brothers were arrested and briefly jailed after she filed a police complaint against them.
Ahmad was forced to flee to a women’s shelter, but last month filed another police complaint after receiving additional threats from her brother….
An 18-year-old woman was shot dead in northern Israel on Friday, becoming the 99th member of the Arab community killed this year in a crime wave that has spiraled out of control since the establishment of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government five months ago.
The killing comes less than 24 hours after a deadly mass shooting in the northern Arab town of Yafa an-Naseriyye that killed five people, one of the worst single acts of violence in recent years.
Police said their initial investigation found that the woman — later identified as Sarit Ahmad — was shot in her upper body while sitting in her car just outside her hometown, the majority-Druze locality Kisra-Sumei in the western Galilee region, by a suspect who managed to flee the scene.
Officers have since opened an investigation and began collecting evidence but indictments of murder cases in the Arab community are exceedingly rare.
Medics were dispatched to the scene and worked to resuscitate Ahmad while rushing her to the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, but doctors were forced to declare her death shortly after she arrived.
According to Hebrew media reports, Ahmad had been threatened in the past over her sexual orientation, and in 2021, two of her brothers were arrested and briefly jailed after she filed a police complaint against them.
Ahmad was forced to flee to a women’s shelter, but last month filed another police complaint after receiving additional threats from her brother….
