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Dec. 20, 2020
On Friday evening Amir Abu Hassin, 25, was shot dead in his grocery store in Baka al-Garbiyeh. Shortly afterward two of his uncles – Ahmad Sharqiyeh, 26, and Mohammed Sharqiyeh, 47, from the nearby community of Jatt, who were following the ambulance bringing their nephew to a hospital – were also shot and killed. Three people died, but Israeli Arab communities have grown accustomed to such violence. This year 95 Israeli Arabs have been murdered, the most in at least 20 years, according to research by Haaretz. Who gets upset over yet another shooting, another murder? The sounds of gunfire and of the sirens of ambulances and police cruisers are such a common soundtrack in some Arab communities that they have become white noise.