2 Umm al-Fahm men shot and killed in apparently separate incidents in northern Arab towns |
Two residents of Umm al-Fahm in their 30s were shot dead in separate incidents in northern Arab towns late Sunday and early Monday, medics said.
Police said they were investigating the killings and suspected both shootings were motivated by crime rather than nationalism. No arrests were reported.
The deaths of Ibrahim Agbaria and Wissam Jabareen, both residents of the northern town of Umm al-Fahm, brought the number of Arab homicide victims this year to 127, according to the Abraham Initiatives coexistence watchdog.
Agbaria was shot Sunday night in the bakery he owned in Kafr Qara, as sirens sounded in the area warning of the first Iranian missile attack in two months, Hebrew media reported. Arabic media reported that Agbaria’s brother Samer was also shot dead in Kafr Qara in 2022.
Jabareen was shot a few hours later in Musheirifia, near Umm al-Fahm, according to the Magen David Adom ambulance........