Ten people were murdered in different parts of the country as violence gripped the Arab community, with most of the murders occurring as part of family and criminal feuds.
Ten people have been murdered in three days, from Friday to Sunday, in seven different cases, raising the number of people murdered in Arab society since the beginning of 2025 to 76, according to the Abraham initiatives.
In one case, two brothers were murdered in Ramle, and in another, three young men were murdered, two of whom were standing near the target of the assassination in a hookah business in the city in the Judean Hills.
In addition to the deaths, two different violent incidents were recorded in Tira on Sunday, in which one person was moderately wounded and another person was critically wounded after being shot while in his vehicle. The police have opened an investigation.
The latest incident saw a man murdered on Sunday morning in Nazareth. Elias Motran, 31, was taken to the English City Hospital in critical condition and was later pronounced dead after arriving at the hospital.
Motran, who was on his way to work, stopped at a bakery to buy pastries and a drink, and the shooters, who were apparently ambushing another family member, did not locate their target and decided to murder the deceased, who was shot at close range.
A large number of police arrived at the scene and opened an investigation to clarify the circumstances of the murder, which was criminal. Investigators collected evidence from the scene, collected security cameras, and police began extensive searches in an attempt to track down suspects in the act.
Immediately following the murder, Police Commissioner Danny Levy held a situation assessment and visit to the city of Nazareth and met with Police officers who were securing the city during the Christian holiday of Palm Sunday.
