{"id":525244,"date":"2026-07-04T18:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T18:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/525244\/"},"modified":"2026-07-04T18:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T18:19:09","slug":"haifa-teen-marks-150th-victim-of-arab-violence-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/525244\/","title":{"rendered":"Haifa teen marks 150th victim of Arab violence in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 17-year-old child became the\u00a0150th person<\/a> murdered in Israel’s Arab community in 2026 after he was shot in Haifa, Rambam<\/a> Hospital announced on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Wiaam Faisal, 17, and Jonathan Khouri, 18, died in a shooting in Haifa. A third young man was hospitalized and remains in serious condition.<\/p>\n

During the shooting incident, an ambulance driver who happened to pass by the scene noticed civilians waving her down to stop and was first on the scene. A report was then received of a shooting at three men near a neighborhood snack bar, a local gathering place opposite the shore in the Ein Hayam neighborhood. There had already been previous acts of violence near that snack bar.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe saw three men who were unconscious with severe gunshot wounds to their bodies,\u201d medical teams said. \u201cOne of the wounded had no pulse and was not breathing. We carried out medical checks, but unfortunately we had no choice but to declare his death. At the same time, we provided lifesaving medical treatment to the two other men and evacuated them to the hospital in serious condition.\u201d<\/p>\n

At this point last year, through the beginning of July, 128 people were murdered by violence in the Arab sector<\/a>, while the year before that, in 2024, \u201conly\u201d 230 Arab citizens were murdered in circumstances of violence and crime, making 2026 one of the most violent years.<\/p>\n

The latest wave of killings comes just days after Police<\/a> Commissioner Danny Levi convened an emergency meeting of the senior command staff. The meeting was called following a prior series of five murders in less than half a day in Tayibe, Kafr Qasim, Jaffa and Holon.<\/p>\n

The worsening violence is drawing sharp criticism of the authorities. MK Ayman Odeh said this amounted to abandoning society as a whole and pointed an accusing finger at National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir. At the Abraham Initiatives organization, they added that the government and the police are in complete collapse and said the leadership\u2019s silence amounts to permitting the blood of citizens to be shed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 17-year-old child became the\u00a0150th person murdered in Israel’s Arab community in 2026 after he was shot in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[151677,737,84430,85,46,106068,25914,44331,43],"class_list":["post-525244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-arab-crime","tag-crime","tag-crime-rates-in-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-murder-rate","tag-israeli-arabs","tag-murder","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}