Israel’s Arab sector has undergone another week of carnage. On Aug. 23, Amna Yasin from Tamra, who was nine months pregnant, was stabbed to death. Reportedly, her husband is the prime suspect. The next day, a 24-year-old woman was shot by an unknown person in Shefar’am, and severely wounded as a result. Additional shooting incidents were recorded later on in the week in Jaffa, Jaljulia and Kafr Makar, where a security camera documented an attempted murder by automatic weapons.

Data published by the Aman Center - the Arab Center for Safe Society in Israel in May shows that 20 members of the Arab sector were slain in the first four months of the year in incidents involving firearms; three of the victims were women. There have more deaths since. According to data collected by the Aman Center, 1,182 people have been killed since 2000 and more than 3,300 have been wounded in shooting episodes within Arab localities.

Roni Alsheich, the inspector general of the Israeli police, said that 59% of murders in Israel in 2015 took place in the Arab sector, even though the sector's residents only constitute 21% of the population.

Haaretz newspaper reported that according to the members of the Higher Arab Monitoring Committee, Arab localities endure a Wild West reality, saying that the Arab-Israeli society in its entirety is on a “slippery slope to internal collapse.” They blame law enforcement authorities, headed by the police, for powerlessness vis-a-vis a shocking phenomenon: that a reported one in three households in the sector have illegal firearms.