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.
