The Arab sector fears further retaliation following the shooting on Road 6

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The police will hold a situation assessment today (Monday) in light of the intelligence information and the suspicion that the recent incidents, in which two people were killed on Road 6 and in Lod, will lead to retaliatory responses. In Lod itself, sources involved in what is happening in the Arab sector believe that the sequence of events that took place this morning is only the beginning, and that the families do not intend to leave the situation as it is without a response, so the following events are only a matter of time.

As stated, following the series of serious violent incidents that have taken place in the last day, Deputy Chief of Police Moti Cohen will hold a special situation assessment with the Central District Commander and his representatives today at 17:00 regarding the preparation and activity of the police on the subject. At 6:30 PM, he will be joined by Homeland Security Minister Amir Ohana and the ministry’s director general (retired) Moshe (Chico) Edri, as well as Central District Commander Superintendent Ami Eshed.

Central District Commander, Superintendent Ami EshedCommenting on the incidents today, he said: “The Israel Police has been dealing with a series of serious criminal incidents since this morning, stemming from a conflict between two families in Arab society in Lod. One murder of a 60-year-old man in the Lod industrial zone, and another 6 in which a young man from the second family was murdered. “

The shooting scene on Road 6, photo by Alon Hachmon

“As a result of the tension between these two families in recent years, which has unfortunately claimed quite a few victims in recent years, one of the families decided to leave the city and move to another village in the area. Some members of the family decided to return to the village to pick up equipment.” “In the area of ​​the Horshim interchange, when the force was accompanying them, fire was opened on Road 6 from a passing vehicle, which hit two members of the family and one person was injured and the other died from his wounds,” the senior officer said.

He added that “this is a very serious sequence of events and a real escalation regarding the use of illegal weapons in Arab society. The investigation of the incidents was entrusted to the Central Sq., Which will act with high priority to complete the investigation and arrest those involved. All aspects of the event will be investigated and examined to the end and we will also know how to draw lessons where required. The Central District Police will increase its forces in Lod, and will operate with dedicated forces and task forces in the fight against crime and criminal conflicts in families in the city. And to strengthen the personal security of the residents. This is our first mission and it will accompany us in the coming months. “

“It is certainly a very difficult incident,” he continued, “and I do not underestimate its severity. We, as I said, will examine all aspects without exception. It is important to emphasize that this is an incident aimed at preventing harassment of those people and their initiative and appeal.” We did not have early information on intentions to harm them so the police force aimed at one mission, and encountered a very serious mission. There is no doubt that this is a very significant step up in that there are people, criminals, who see a police force nearby and its main mission was warning “We will examine ourselves and see, but again it is not a matter of securing personalities. We do not do that, we take care to act to the concrete of the public with our abilities and means.”

In the afternoon, large police forces entered Lod, after the murder that took place this morning, and during the entry of the forces, violent clashes began between the two clans in the city, in which vehicles were set on fire and stones were thrown at the police. One of them was lightly injured during the incident.

At the same time, the police made the arrest of two suspects involved in the murder of Salman Azberga that took place this morning in Lod, and later the police apparently arrested more suspects involved in the events that took place in the city. After a chase on Road 6, the police managed to stop a vehicle in the Kfar Saba area with suspects in it. The police searched the vehicle and brought the suspects into custody.

The vehicle that was involved in the incident on Road 6 (Photo: Rescue Union spokeswoman)The vehicle that was involved in the incident on Road 6 (Photo: Rescue Union spokeswoman)

This morning, a young man in his 20s, who deteriorated this morning with his vehicle on Road 6 after being shot at, died of his wounds at Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva. In the incident in question, which took place near the Nachshonim interchange, another young man was fatally injured. Police suspect that there is a connection between the shooting and the assassination of Azbarga early in the morning in Lod.

While investigators from the Central District Police Unit were busy investigating the scene where Azbarga was killed and detectives escorted representatives of the Abu Saluk family, the family facing the bloody conflict in Lod, on their way to relocate to Kfar Qassem, were conducted on suspicion. Factors close to the family of the murdered man, in retaliation, and succeeded in killing a young man in the 1920s from the Abu Saluk family, injuring another young man who was sitting next to him in a vehicle and injuring two other vehicles of the family, all in front of police officers.

The scene of the incident on Road 6, the vehicle that deteriorated (Photo: Alon Hachmon)The scene of the incident on Road 6, the vehicle that deteriorated (Photo: Alon Hachmon)

The shooting on Road 6 and the murder that preceded it in Lod take place at the end of a year saturated with violence in the Arab sector. Nine days ago, Muhammad and Ahmad Sharqiya, two brothers from the village of Jat, were shot dead nine days ago in their vehicle. The two were shot while accompanying their 25-year-old nephew to Hillel Yaffe Hospital in Hadera after the latter was shot and seriously injured in the entrance to an explosion he owned in Baqa al-Gharbiya. The nephew’s death was determined the next day at the hospital.

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