Bereaved mothers from Arab sector protest outside Bar Lev's house

• Published date: 26 September 2021
• Author: SHIRA SILKOFF
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

According to Ynet, the protest was led by the mothers of victims murdered in the Arab sector and an estimated 120 people attended the protest in total.

Two murders over the weekend have brought the 2021 death toll in Israeli-Arab communities to 92, with over three months still to go until the end of the year.

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Of the 92 deaths recorded this year, six of them happened in the last week alone.

56-year-old Naim Suri was killed in Nazareth on Friday, and Haifa resident Hussam Otman, age 30, was shot dead in the road late on Friday night.

In addition to both deaths, multiple people were injured in violent incidents on Friday, including two men who were injured in Umm al-Fahm, and a six-year-old who is in critical condition in hospital after being shot.

"I want to know who killed my son," one bereaved mother at the demonstration said in a statement expressing her pain at the ongoing situation. "I am constantly with the police and the prosecution team in Haifa, but I was told there was no evidence," she told Ynet.

"I'm hopeless, I know who murdered my son, and the police won't do anything about it. Today...