Crime within Israel’s Palestinian minority reaches new heights under Netanyahu’s government

By Tia Goldenberg, Associated Press, Lod, Israel

Transcribed from the clipping

“LOD, Israel — A relentless wave of violent crime within Israel’s Palestinian minority is turning cities and towns into bloody battlefields, exasperating a community feeling increasingly forsaken by Israeli authorities… More than 100 people have been killed in violent crime in Arab communities this year, nearly three times higher than at the same time last year, according to the Abraham Initiatives… ‘Will a person who is busy making racist comments against Arabs protect them,’ said Thabet Abu Rass, co-director of the Abraham Initiatives. ‘We are citizens of this country. We deserve to feel secure like anyone else in this country. And that is his responsibility.’… ‘We leave the house, we’re scared. The kids are at school, I am afraid for them. I am always thinking “will my son return home or not?”’ said Mirvat Saleh, 48, a plant and flower vendor at a market in Lod… Israeli Arab citizens are descendants of Palestinians who remained within the borders of what became Israel in 1948.”

Context added by this archive

Palestinian citizens of Israel, named and quoted, as the subject rather than the backdrop. The last paragraph explains who they are by saying which people they are descended from and which year did it.

Cite this item

"Crime within Israel’s Palestinian minority reaches new heights under Netanyahu’s government," Times-News, 20 June 2023. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2023-037. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2023-037

Elsewhere in the archive

Israeli minority sees crime spikePocono Record · 20 June 2023 · the same dispatch, carried by another paper
Israel official’s site visit assailedNew Jersey Herald · 4 January 2023 · the same year
Visit to Jerusalem holy site stokes angerLos Angeles Times · 4 January 2023 · the same year
Israeli minister defies leadership with visit to Jerusalem flash pointThe Philadelphia Inquirer · 4 January 2023 · the same year

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