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Police announced that they arrested four suspects in a shooting earlier today in Kafr Qara, in which a man was killed and a woman was moderately injured.
The suspects have been interrogated and detained, according to the police statement, which adds that the police will request to extend their detention.
The shooting was the latest incident in a wave of violent crime that has shaken Arab society and sparked mass protests.
Two French-Israeli activists facing legal summons in France for “complicity in genocide” denounce what they describe as a political trial.
The summonses were issued in July last year for lawyer Nili Kupfer-Naouri of the Israel is Forever group and Rachel Touitou of the Tsav 9 group over protests in 2024 and 2025 that aimed to block trucks carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza.
The summonses call for the two to appear before an investigating magistrate but not for their detention.
Speaking at an event in Netanya, Kupfer-Naouri asserts that “this is not an individual case, this is a state matter… this is a political trial.”
Touitou tells AFP that she had “protested peacefully, my only ‘weapon’ was an Israeli flag,” adding she had been motivated by accusations of Hamas looting aid while hostages held by the terror group were “rotting.”
“International law cannot be hijacked and instrumentalized for political ends,” she added.
Kupfer-Naouri, who has filed a slander complaint in France against organizations involved in the case, says, “You cannot be accused of complicity in genocide when no court, either French or international, has ruled that there is a genocide in Gaza.”
Israel adamantly rejects allegations that its fight against Hamas in Gaza, sparked by the terror group’s October 7, 2023, onslaught, amounts to genocide, saying that it takes measures to avoid civilian casualties and blaming Hamas for fighting from among noncombatants.
Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
In January, three times more Palestinians were victims of terror attacks in the West Bank than Jews, according to figures from Israel’s security establishment reported by the Kan public broadcaster.
The report comes amid a spike in attacks by extremist settlers in the West Bank. The network did not specify the precise source of the figures.
Last month, according to the Kan report, 22 Palestinians were injured and required medical evacuation due to terror attacks, versus seven Jewish Israelis.
The report also said that last month, there were 11 instances of arson attacks by Jews targeting Palestinian buildings or vehicles. January saw two instances of Palestinians throwing Molotov cocktails at Jewish targets, the report said, along with 126 instances of Palestinian stone-throwing targeting Jews.
The data reflects the continuation of a months-long rise in attacks by extremist Jewish settlers against Palestinians and Israeli security forces in the West Bank. The number of such attacks rose by 27 percent in 2025 compared to the previous year, according to data recorded by the Israel Defense Forces and Shin Bet security agency.
The number of severe incidents of “nationalistic crime” by settler extremists, classified by Israeli security bodies as terrorism, also rose by over 50%, according to the data.
The attacks, which occur on a near-daily basis, largely go unchecked.........