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The protesters, seeking to send the government and Knesset a message, waved black flags and disrupted the traffic as they left from Kafr Qara.
The chairman of the Higher Arab Monitoring Committee, former member of parliament Mohammed Baraka, said the convoy is a first step in a protest that will continue “until the government responds to the most legitimate and humane issue in Arab society – personal safety.”
The convoy on the road leading to Jerusalem.
Baraka said that the protesters are demanding law enforcement authorities to seize illegal weapons and fight criminals with harsh punishments.
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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.
Dec. 19, 2020
Three Israeli Arabs from the same family were shot dead on Friday in the country s north, bringing the number of 2020 murder cases in Israel s Arab community to 95, the highest figure in at least 20 years, according to Haaretz s tally.
Eyewitnesses said that shots were fired at a store in Baka al-Garbiyeh, wounding the store owner, 25-year-old Amir Abu Hussein. He was rushed to the Hillel Yaffeh Medical Center in Hadera, where he was pronounced dead.
Two of his uncles, 26-year-old Ahmad Sharkiyeh and 47-year-old Mohammad Sharkiyeh, were shot on Route 9 while driving near the ambulance that was making its way to the hospital. First aid teams rushed them to the same hospital, but they were both declared dead on the way. All three victims are from the village of Jatt, in the Triangle area.