Arab-Israeli man killed in Haifa, marking the 100th victim this year

• Author: ELIAV BREUER
• Published date: 02 October 2021
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

Security cameras showed that Mougrabi was hit by a car that was driving in the wrong lane as he was crossing a street. An armed man then exited the car, shot him, and drove off.

Mougrabi is then seen trying to stand but quickly falls to the ground. He crawls a few meters but then falls still and does not move again. He was married and had a daughter.

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The murder was the fifth in Haifa in the past two months.

While the NGO "Abraham Initiatives" counted Mougrabi's death as the 95th this year in the Israeli-Arab community, others counted it as the 100th due to different criteria.

Israeli-Arab MKs and activists reacted to the tragic milestone.

"100 Arab citizens were murdered since the beginning of the year. 100 victims of the crime that is raging unchecked." MK Aida Touma-Sliman (Joint List) wrote on Twitter.

"For a few months, we have been hearing about plans, preparations and operations conducted by the police. So how come this is the bloodiest year in recent memory? We do not have patience for more plans and declarations - [we] demand immediate life-saving action," she wrote.

"Neighborhood committees and social organizations have been warning the Mayor and Members of Knesset in meetings for a year and a half about what was about to occur and nothing was done," said Jaffer Farah, head of the Mossawa Center, the Advocacy Center for Arab Citizens in Israel.

"They know how to invest millions in the [Haifa] film festival celebrations on the Carmel, and they do not care that the only Arab theatre in the downtown area has been closed for three years," he said.

"Everyone who knows the background knows that the police's charlatan actions deepened the feuds in the neighborhoods. In the May events they arrested over 200 young Arab protestors but released feuding criminals knowing fully well what would happen in the streets," Farah continued, referring to the rioting in the mixed Jewish and Arab-Israeli cities during Operation Guardian of the Walls.

"In order to silence the criticism they announced that they will deploy 120 Border Police [to the city], but whoever tracked them saw them standing idly and bored, while drinking coffee, energy drinks and racking up extra hours. The Haifa police station has not had a commander for months, and the community policing has disappeared," he said.

"The national education system and the failed...