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The number of Arab murders doubled and more within 6 years.
2021 is expected to be more bleeding
From the assassination of the teacher in Ramla to the assassination on the Trans-Israel Highway, violence in Arab society has swelled to unprecedented proportions this year, and the corona has only exacerbated the situation.
When half of the heads of the authorities are threatened, the sector is waiting for the promised budget and more aggressive police involvement, and meanwhile is shouting bitterly: "Arab life is not no man's land"
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Ayman Odeh
Mansour Abbas
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Yoav Itiel
Wednesday, 02 December 2020, 13:40
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In the video: 113 deaths in the Arab sector in 2020 (Photo: Yoav Itiel, graphic design: Avichai Baruch)
Sharifa Abu Muammar, a 30-year-old teacher and educator, prepared food for her baby at her home in Ramla on a hot summer evening, last August 31.
Within hours, Abu Muammar, who served as social coordinator and educator at Dror-Ramla Social High School, was scheduled to finally open the school year, in the shadow of the special preparations for their renewal under the Corona restrictions.
But the dedicated educator did not come to school.
During that night she was hit by a bullet that went in through the kitchen window and hit her.
According to the indictment filed against two brothers, young residents of the city, Abu Muammar was not the one to whom the bullets were intended.
Two young men accused of murdering her tried to harm her relative in a family conflict, and after stabbing him and he fled the scene - they also tried to shoot at the family home, and so the bullet reached Abu Muammar's house as well.
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The anger aroused by the case has already subsided in the sequence of events.
Fire Abu Muammar
The case of fire Abu Muammar provoked a great deal of public anger, which managed to sink into the sequence of events.
But this is just one name in a bloody year - a record year for the number of victims of violence in Arab society.
A total of 113 Arabs were killed this year in murder and other violence, compared to 94 last year (a 20% increase) - including 96 men and 17 women.
According to Aman, the Arab center for the fight against violence, 26 of the victims were killed as revenge, 11 on the basis of domestic violence, 41 are classified as "serious crime" and the rest - "general violence".
According to the center, only 28 of the murders committed during the year were solved.
The data also shows that the escalation continued throughout the year and that December was the deadliest month, with 17 murder victims, including a triple murder in Baqa al-Gharbiya, and a series of violent incidents that occurred just this week - when a Lod resident was killed in his car, and a 15-year-old boy was shot dead. Near the Nachshonim interchange, under the watchful eye of police officers who accompanied the vehicle in which they were traveling.
According to the suspect, the recent events occurred as part of a protracted conflict between rival families.
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In total, since 2000, 1,521 Arabs have been killed in such and other violent incidents, 80% of them with firearms.
According to the Center "Aman", founded by Sheikh Kamel Rayan, one of the southern branch of the Islamic Movement, former vice president of the Center for Local Government and mayor of Kafr Bara, who founded the Center following the shooting murder of his son in 2009. The
number of victims rises steadily year Another year, six years in a row since the center began surveillance in 2014, when there were 51 - less than half of those murdered last year.The numbers of the "Abraham Entrepreneurship" organization are lower because they do not count the murdered of East Jerusalem, or Israeli Arabs murdered in the territories, but also Its data show the same trend.
Shooting incidents are recorded in almost every Arab locality every night.
Protest over violence in the sector (Photo: This is the way)
It is not just the herd murder that has changed Arab society this year.
Serious shootings are reported in almost every Arab locality every night, as are arson of vehicles and businesses.
These often imply a phenomenon of extortion of sponsorship fees.
It is estimated that there are 400,000 illegal weapons in Israel.
Accordingly, according to the chairman of the Knesset's special committee for the eradication of crime in Arab society and the deputy chairman of the Knesset, MK Mansour Abbas (RAAM), 93% of criminal shootings take place in Arab society.
For example, in November an unprecedented wave of gunfire swept across the north at banks attributed to an Arab criminal organization - during which one suspect was shot dead by a police force that was in an ambush.
The investigation is still ongoing, but no indictments have been filed in the case.
Open bag
More than half of the heads of the Arab authorities are threatened
Despite the record number of murders in Arab society, dissolution of the Knesset and the beginning of the term of the transitional government froze the implementation of the recommendations of the directors-general committee appointed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to deal with crime and violence in the moment before it was approved.
Only in early November participated Netanyahu at a special meeting of the Special Committee, He promised to raise the recommendations as a decision-makers' proposal at a forthcoming government meeting and gave those present another two weeks to complete them - but no progress has been made since then, and six weeks later the government fell, and with it the chances of the report being approved soon.
Rule under threats
"The prime minister promised me in committee that it will be submitted to the government for approval within two weeks, and I am waiting to hear about allocating a budget of half a billion shekels for five years. Every day I call the prime minister's office and tell me that without a state budget there is no budget to implement the plan. 2.5 billion is the cost of fourth economy election - there it goes, "said MK Abbas evident disappointment, inter alia, after he lost out both ways: also criticized the rapprochement Netanyahu to advance the interests of Arab society, and finally returned empty-handed.
" peaks too registrants "For a year they have not taken the authorities out of the routine and still [everyone] is behaving as if nothing has happened, so they are not able to stop the constant increase," MK Abbas explained the frustration.
"The plan was supposed to be ready in early 2020, but its formulation was delayed until the end of the year. We received a promise to approve and budget it and meanwhile budget all sorts of tens and hundreds of billions of shekels, forgetting the matter that is most important in Arab society and the country in general. "He repeatedly calls on the prime minister, the government and members of the Knesset to act to advance the plan and approve it as soon as possible."
"Without a state budget there is no budget to implement the plan."
MK Abbas (Photo: Jonathan Samia - Knesset Spokeswoman)
Behind the scenes, there has also been grave concern about the infiltration of organized crime into local government.
The big money that has flowed to the Arab authorities in recent years to close gaps in infrastructure, education and other areas - winked at the Arab criminal organizations, and it is a process that feeds itself: the more they strike roots and produce more money, the stronger they become.
"A vacuum was created after the police liquidated Jewish crime families, and Arab organized crime entered it, and what was once a backyard drug business rose to the forefront - with a real criminal economy created, with the takeover of resources, legitimate businesses, and local government tenders." "It changed the whole thing," said Rada Jaber, the director general of Aman. "
The Knesset Research and Information Center report shows that more than half of the heads of the 67 Arab authorities in Israel are defined as threatened by the Ministry of Internal Security, and that within two years their number has doubled." From 17 in 2017 to 35 in 2019.
"What used to be in the backyard rose to the front of the stage."
Murder scene in Lod, this week (Photo: Yossi Aloni, Flash 90)
"2021 will be even more bloody"
"Weapons and ammunition are available to all. The criminal behavior pattern has taken over. This is the thinking of 'I have a gun, so I can threaten the uncle, in his conflict with mother, on the land bequeathed to her grandfather,'" Jaber claims.
"It is an epidemic and should be treated as an epidemic. In the corona era it is easy to understand, but the problem is that crime in Arab society is treated as if it were some kind of social disease."
Regarding the future, Aman CEO expressed pessimism. "It is clear to me that next year's crime will be even more widespread, with the corona, the economic situation, the crumbling politics, the insufficient presence of the police and the lack of a leadership mechanism that can lead the company," he said. "2020 is bleeding to sustainability and deepening because of the situation in the country with the corona and the economic consequences and at the same time the deepening distress in Arab society.
" "Therefore, 2021 will be even bleeding, if we do not see significant policing and significant state and social responsibility," he concluded.
"All the reasons that made 2020 bleed exist and deepen," Rada Jaber (Photo: Yoav Itiel)
The directors of the Avraham Initiatives Association, Dr. Thabet Abu Ras and Amnon Barry-Soliciano, are also concerned about the following and warn: "If the government's plan to eradicate violence and crime in Arab society is not promoted immediately, 2021 could be even more dangerous for Arab citizens who simply want Get out of the house safely. "
"One would have expected that in a year of house closures due to the corona virus, there would be fewer conflicts and incidents of violence, but in practice it was just the opposite, and 2020 was a deadlier year for Arab society than its predecessors," they said.
According to them, this indicates a neglect of the situation that leads to deterioration.
"The promise of a government plan has not been fulfilled, even though the prime minister announced it in a Knesset committee, and meanwhile the Knesset has disbanded and the shootings and killings continue as usual," they explain. At the level of policing and enforcement, as well as addressing the in-depth factors that are causing the phenomenon. "
At the same time, they continue to call for "a determined action by Arab society itself to denounce the phenomenon from it - Arab life is not the no-man's land."
"Human life must come before politics" Triangle murder scene, November (Photo: Police spokeswoman)
Even one murdered is too much
Against the background of the rising violence and in response to the call of the High Monitoring Committee of the Arab Public in Israel, several protests took place in the past month, most notably a convoy of vehicles that ascended from Wadi Ara to Jerusalem on a slow drive, to demonstrate in front of the Knesset.
During the event, MK Ayman Odeh said that even the plan that has not yet been approved is not acceptable to him. "We want to drip budgets that mean implementing the plan over ten years.
At the current rate of murders, this means that more than 1,100 people from Arab society will pay with their lives for this shaking of their legs, "MK Odeh warned.
"You can't agree to such a thing."
"You can't agree to such a thing."
Convoy of protest over violence in the Arab sector in front of the Knesset (Photo: Yoav Itiel)
"I do not argue with the numbers, that there are those who are interested in increasing them. For me, every murder is a world in its own right. Even one murdered is too many," says Jamal Khachrush, who heads the Israel Police Directorate for Improving Service in Arab Society. four years.
"What's more, the victims are often innocent, unrelated to the conflict."
Khachrush himself was in September this year until the murder that took place one Saturday right in front of him, in his hometown, Kfar Kanna.
"The interesting thing is that the result is not good even though we did a lot," he says.
"It's worth checking out and we'll check ourselves. Apparently the result is not coming right away."
Violence hurts everyone and everyone
According to his analysis, most murders in Arab society are due to local conflicts, and not as a result of organized crime.
"A conflict in Jewish society you encounter in court. In Arab society it rolls into violence," he says, but agrees that there is a need to concentrate effort in the fight against criminal organizations - even though such struggles require time.
"I mention that we worked for nine years until the crime families in the Jewish sector disbanded. I have no doubt that they will disband in the Arab sector as well, but we are only working on it for about a year plus."
In contrast to social activists, Khachrush actually expresses optimism.
"As for the future, I am calm. In the future, I have no doubt that the result will be much better. Visually, and contrary to what others broadcast, in places where we have set up police stations, there is a great decrease in severe violence. Seriously. It's true that we are not always enough. "
"In places where we have set up police stations, there is a big drop in severe violence."
Khachrush (Photo: Yoav Itiel)
In practice, in 2020, only two police stations were inaugurated in Arab localities: in Tira in the Sharon and in the village of Yassif in the Western Galilee.
In addition, one police station was opened in the village of Manda.
A total of seven stations have been opened so far, out of 20 planned.
Also, only a few dozen Arab policemen were recruited this year, "due to the corona."
A total of about 700 Muslim policemen have been recruited since the establishment of the administration out of 2,000 as planned - but in the meantime others have also retired.
"This is a matter of a frozen budget, which is obliged to return to it in order to build the other planned stations," Michael Shepeshak, the spokesman for Arab affairs at the Israel Police, told the Knesset committee. "What's left - some went to activities in East Jerusalem and others solved problems here and there within the Ministry of the Interior and the police, etc."
In 2020, only two police stations were inaugurated in Arab localities.
16-year-old murder scene in Ilut (Photo: Eli Ashkenazi)
"I am still very optimistic that the products of this committee will become a government decision that will be realized," says Chief of Staff on the stuck CEOs' report, which he says includes many right and significant points for the future of Israeli society. "Despite its name, it is a good plan for Israeli society and every citizen. and personal security, and there is no reason not approved. "
" there are a lot of good things made in Arab society in recent years, "asks Jamal Hcros emphasized," the fact is that once fought for our initiative to establish police stations in communities and today complain that we are not putting them fast enough.
Today more stations and more police are being sought.
It is an encouraging sign.
"" I believe that if the Israeli police do not work with two arms together, they will not succeed, "says Superintendent Jamal Khachrush. Neglect it.
For years and years we have only treated the offender and have not made great suggestions for treating him.
I mean, we did not succeed here or here. "
Police: Violence occurs too often in Arab society
"We do not provide information in the required segmentation," the Israel Police said in response to the request for the number of murders solved in Israel in general, as opposed to those solved in Arab society.
"In addition, we note that since the beginning of the year, 130 murders have taken place in Israel so far that have claimed the lives of 140 victims. In addition, dozens of murders have been solved so far and the rest are still under police investigation or transferred to the State Attorney's Office."
The police also said that "murder investigations are conducted thoroughly and professionally while uncompromisingly striving to investigate the truth and bring the suspects to justice, regardless of the identity of the victim or the killer. Murder case investigations continue until they are solved, investing many resources and conducting a wide range of investigations." "Over time and with all the means at our disposal."
"Only cooperation will lead to change."
Assessment of the situation of the commissioner's deputy after the assassination on Road 6, this week (Photo: Police spokeswoman)
The police wanted to point out that "in the past year the police have solved dozens of murders in Israel and others are in active investigations", and that "when it comes to violence and murders in Arab society in Israel, unfortunately violence and shootings occur too often among Arab society in Israel. Internal conflicts escalate into violence.The police work resolutely throughout the year against the trade and use of weapons, anytime, anywhere, and weapons and ammunition are seized daily in proactive police activity.
"Since the beginning of the year, thousands of weapons and various weapons have been seized in Arab communities, many suspects have been arrested, and hundreds of indictments have been filed against criminals."
Finally, it was stated that "at the same time, only deep cooperation between Arab society and the Israel Police will lead to change along with the continued determined and uncompromising struggle of the police against serious violence in general and in the Arab sector in particular. We will continue to prevent, expose and investigate serious violence." The criminals wherever they are. "
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