In Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, an increase in the number of patients with kidney diseases in homes and hospital wards are becoming unprecedented. So far, millions of people, cutting across different ages and genders, have been lost to renal failure, and now threatening a new generation. Daily Trust Saturday gathered that the potential causes…
Ynet, close to 120 Palestinian citizens of Israel were murdered in 2020. According to the
Jerusalem Post, in 2019 71% of the 125 homicide victims in Israel were Palestinian citizens of Israel. In fact, there has been a 100% increase in the number of Palestinian citizens of Israel killed in the past six years. The number of Jewish Israeli homicide victims during that same period has remained consistent and far lower, at around 35 victims per year.
The
Jerusalem Post report quotes Dr. Walid Haddad, a criminologist who teaches at the Western Galilee College in Akka and who served in Israeli law enforcement for 15 years. Haddad said that the state does not arrest criminals who have illegal weapons, “even if it identifies them, because these criminals provide the police with information.”
No one knows just how large an arsenal is possessed by Palestinian organized crime families but it is clear that it is comprised mostly of Israeli military weapons.