After a bloody weekend in which four Arabs were murdered on criminal grounds, the violence continues to rage tonight (Monday): Iyad Raed Devdov, 34, was shot dead in Jadeida Makr.
Another person was seriously injured in the incident.
This is the 94th murder since the beginning of the year in the Arab sector, 16 since the beginning of the month, and the violence in the sector can already be called: a coup d'etat.
The murdered, Devdov and Hussein Kushi, 32, who were seriously injured, are known to police.
Apparently it was a murder on a criminal background following a criminal dispute over areas of control in the underworld in the north.
Iyad Raed Devdov, 34, killed in Jadeida Makr,
According to surveillance data from the Avraham Initiatives Association, since the beginning of the year, 94 Arabs have been murdered in Israel in circumstances related to violence and crime, of which 79 are civilians and 15 are non-citizens.
In addition, 7 civilians were killed by police forces.
Of all those killed, 13 are women.
In 75 of the cases, the murder was done using a firearm.
50 of the murdered were up to the age of 30.
In protest of the wave of murders and violence in Arab society, dozens of Arab social activists and mothers demonstrated yesterday whose family members are victims of crime in Arab society near the home of Minister of Internal Security Amar Bar-Lev in Kochav Yair.
The chairman of the joint list, MK Ayman Odeh, who took part in the demonstration, said: "The government has a plan. But it will only be relevant in a decade and until that happens, another 1,200 Arabs will be killed here."
The mothers shout: "No more - we are the change", Photo: Yonatan Shaul
The High Monitoring Committee of Arab Society in Israel also shifts most of the responsibility and blame for the wave of crime in the Arab sector to the police and Israeli governments: "When will they wake up in the government and the police?
When this violence that rages in the sector will spill over into Jewish society.
As soon as God forbid Jews are intentionally or accidentally harmed by Arab criminals then the whole country will shout.
It is difficult to say this, but all these years it has been convenient for the police and the government that Arabs kill Arabs and this government is no different.
With RAAM or without RAAM.
Decide that this is a national struggle.
Murder scene in Ramla, last month / Photo: Gideon Markovich,
A senior official in the Umm al-Fahm municipality told Israel Today that "if a Jewish child had been injured as happened with the child who was injured in Umm al-Fahm, the country would have been shocked. The Arab criminal organizations have lost the little respect they still have. '
