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Police boast enforcement in the Arab sector, protesting authorities: "Activity tends to zero"

Police data show that in 2020, more than 5,000 Arab citizens were arrested on suspicion of shooting and weapons offenses. According to a police source, the organization invests a lot of resources in the fight against violence, but Arab society claims the data reveals a resounding failure. per year"

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Liran Levy and Yoav Itiel

Tuesday, January 12, 2021, 7:30 p.m.

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85% of the indictments for firearms and weapons (weapons) in 2020 were filed against Arab citizens - according to data released today (Tuesday) by the police. In the past year, 1,548 indictments were filed for these offenses, an increase of 18% compared to 2019. On the other hand, in the authorities The Arabs are protesting that despite the enforcement data - police activity is aiming for zero.

According to the police, 5,713 suspects in shooting and weapons offenses have been arrested across the country in the past year - an increase of about 22% in the number of detainees compared to last year.

The vast majority of police activity was conducted in the localities of Arab society and about 90% of the suspects arrested for the same offenses are from the Arab sector.

The data also show that in 2020, more than 1,150 pistols, submachine guns and rifles of various types and at least 200 grenades of various types, cartridges and explosives and explosives were seized.

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Weapons seized in a police raid in the north, last week (Photo: Israel Police Spokeswoman)

"We are investing a lot of resources in seizing weapons, we have a large presence in the Arab sector," a police source told Walla! NEWS.

There is a kind of boredom, the conflicts are starting to float up and we are suddenly discovering disputes about petty things. "

The source criticized the lenient punishment for possession of a weapon and firing. He said," It can be seen that the imprisonment for possession of a weapon or shooting does not exceed two years.

The legislature must increase the punishment - both imprisonment and imposing a very high fine of at least one hundred thousand shekels, this can be a deterrent.

"" Unfortunately, we see that an indictment is also not sufficient.

There must be revenge and it is a never-ending cycle of violence, "he said, referring to the rising violence in Arab society.

However, despite police statements on increased enforcement, according to Aman, the Arab Center for Combating Violence, 113 Arabs were killed in 2020 in homicides and other violence, compared to 94 last year (20% increase) - including 96 men and 17 women.

Since 2000, 1,521 Arabs have been killed in such and other violent incidents, 80% of them with firearms.

"It's about spin, decoding and the perception of those involved striving for zero," he told Walla!

NEWS Adv. Modar Yunis, head of the local council, appeals as chairman of the committee of heads of the Arab authorities in Israel.

"The police are trying to throw sand in the eyes of the public and are allegedly showing successes in locating and apprehending, but unfortunately we do not feel the results on the ground because these are usually crimes whose perpetrators were clear even before the police arrived at the scene."

He said, "The acts of murder and violence and serious crime are only intensifying in Arab society and this is seen daily in every village and in every Arab city. No real police action is seen. The police know how to appear in a demonstration in Kafr Qara with increased forces with a helicopter in the air and disperse on Route 65. "Capture the killer and killers of a young man like the innocent Suleiman Masarwa. The state of Israel and its captains have not yet made a real decision to eradicate crime and violence in Arab society: talk about plans, work full year on proposing, promise budgets, and eventually disappear for another round of elections."

"The police are trying to throw sand in the eyes of the public."

Police in Araba (Photo: Israel Police Spokeswoman)

Advocate Rada Jaber, director of the Aman Center, made it clear that “from our point of view we want and demand that the police succeed.

Its success means saving human lives.

There is no point in arguing with the data but demanding more activity and prolonged treatment with strategic thinking on the matter.

"Although the reality in Arab localities tells a different and painful story of continued use of firearms, the availability of huge quantities of weapons by criminals, and incessant firing in public space, we want to welcome any activity but want a significant shift in the number of perceptions and levels of activity against gun owners, users and especially arms dealers."

According to Avraham's initiatives, "police data reveal its and the state authorities' resounding failure to eradicate violence and crime in Arab society.

In a reality where tens of thousands of illegal weapons are on the streets, and just this month 93,000 bullets were stolen from Tze'elim base (which must have already reached the criminals), a seizure of 1,150 pistols and 200 grenades and ammunition a year it simply mocked Ersch.

The increase in the number of indictments does not come close to the rate of increase in the number of shootings, which the same police officers - who are on the streets with an increased presence to impose fines for not wearing masks - miraculously do not hear

. " "Enforced, but it is time for the authorities to take at least as seriously the epidemic of violence and crime, which undermines the personal security of Arab citizens in Israel no less than the Corona," they added. "The government must without delay promote a comprehensive government program And enforcement, but also to the factors of depth - without which we will not be able to eradicate the phenomenon. "

"The government must advance without any delay a government plan."

Demonstration in front of the police station in Lod (Photo: official website, without)

The police said that "weapons held illegally are often used by criminals, gangs and criminal organizations, mainly against the background of conflicts and the liquidation of local accounts, but not only. These weapons are also used for terrorist activities, serious crimes and serious violent incidents. "It is based on police intelligence, exposure of weapons and gun criminals and significant activity carried out on the covert level. Every day the police locate weapons and ammunition and arrest criminals who use them in violation of the law."

"Unfortunately, various factors often try to present an alternative reality and blame the police activity against criminal elements in the sector instead of strengthening the police in the determined treatment of violence in Arab society and using all existing tools to lead to change. Along with continued enforcement and deepening, to treat the phenomenon "My deep roots are far beyond police enforcement," they added.

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