Five Arab Israelis Killed in Hours as Car Bombings, Shootings Rock Central Israel
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Five Arab Israelis were killed within hours on Sunday in a surge of underworld violence across central Israel. A car bomb detonated in Jaffa at about 7:30 a.m., killing Iyad Raab, 38, and moderately wounding his 6-year-old son, who was rushed to Wolfson Medical Center. A second car bombing in Holon killed a man of about 30, while overnight shootings in Taibe claimed 19-year-old Bakr Nuseirat and seriously wounded another man, and gunmen in Kafr Qasim killed Adnan Ghanem and Ghaleb Abu-Ras. Israel Police, which has expanded operations against Arab-sector crime networks, is investigating whether the Jaffa attack was revenge for last week's killing of a local teenager.
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Sources agree on the core facts: five Arab Israelis killed June 28; Jaffa car bomb at ~7:30 a.m. killed a 38-year-old and moderately wounded his 6-year-old son taken to Wolfson; a second Holon car bombing killed a man around 30; additional shootings in northern/central Arab towns. Factual divergences: Israel National News locates one shooting in Kafr Qasim (naming Adnan Ghanem and Ghaleb Abu-Ras), while Haaretz places that shooting in Kalansua. Cumulative 2026 Arab-sector crime death toll cited by Haaretz is 166, while the Times of Israel reporting line tracks at least 141. Other reports decline to name individual victims.
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