Following the assassination carried out yesterday (Saturday) in the Jaffa port, the police intend to increase the forces in the city in the near future, fearing that the assassination could lead to bloodshed, because the successors of Abed Qazaz, who was assassinated yesterday, and Izzat Hamed, head of a criminal organization Created.
Police sources said that "we will pursue the criminals until it pays them to hold a rifle in their hand."
Sources also noted that in yesterday's assassination, red lines were crossed, as has often happened recently.
The police also know that at this time in Jaffa, for the first time in decades, there is no head of a criminal organization.
Abed Kazaz, Photo: No Credit
Kazaz had previously served 12.5 years in prison, terrorizing many.
Police are investigating whether his murder was linked to Hamed's assassination in July.
Kazaz arrived yesterday at around 14:30 in the southern parking lot of the Jaffa port in his car.
Despite the large crowd that stayed at the place - some for corona tests in the compound - two unknown people armed with a gun blocked Kazaz's path.
He escaped from the vehicle towards the pier and the two followed him, firing about 10 bullets at him.
He jumped into the sea, but the bullets caught up with him.
The unidentified men fled the scene in a vehicle, and meanwhile civilians and MDA personnel, who were at the test site, ran towards Kazaz, who was lying wounded by gunfire in the water.
Paramedics and paramedics, along with a civilian who was staying at the scene, pulled Kazaz from the sea, and MDA personnel began providing him with medical treatment and evacuated him to Wolfson Hospital in a critical condition with gunshot wounds.
He was soon pronounced dead at the hospital.
Police officers at the scene of the assassination at the Jaffa port, yesterday, Photo: No credit
M., a local resident who spent time with his children on the lawn near the pier, said that in Jaffa they are used to hearing gunshots, but this time it was really close to him and his children: "The media talks about the Arab localities in the north and south, "To be a 'Wild West.'
Kazaz has in recent years been considered one of the "heaviest" in Jaffa, who runs an empire of many millions in the gray market.
He has many assets in the city of Jaffa, and was involved in the killing of Khader Daka in Jaffa in 2006.
A gang headed by Hamed, of which he was a member of Kazaz, abducted Daka and another man at the time, amid a dispute between the owner of the Bnei HaDaig restaurant in Jaffa and a fishmonger from Gaza.
Kazaz was involved in the abduction, when the two were put in the trunk of a car in Jaffa and the kidnappers ordered them to read the Koran before their execution.
They were driven away, but managed to escape forcibly from the trunk.
Kazaz spotted them and began to chase after them, firing at them in front of passers-by in central Jaffa.
One of the hostages was shot and killed, while the other abductee managed to escape.
Police officers at the assassination scene in Jaffa, yesterday, Photo: No credit
Kazaz was convicted and imprisoned, and after being released about seven years ago was convicted once again, this time of offenses of endangering human life in a transport lane, causing grievous bodily harm, abandonment after injury and driving without a valid driver’s license for the vehicle type.
The verdict stated at the time that the defendant had 11 previous convictions in the years 2007-2000 for dozens of offenses, including property, vehicles, violence, violation of a legal provision, assault on a public employee and more.
Central District Court Judge Clara Reginiano wrote of him at the time of the sentencing: "The defendant's conviction in this case, the defendant's past and the spawn fund hanging over his head show that he suffered a bad injury that he adapted to a criminal lifestyle."