Five members of the same family were shot dead overnight Thursday in the northern Bedouin village of Basmat Tab’un, bringing the death toll from crime in Israel’s Arab sector to a new high.
The family—a mother in her 40s with her 25-year-old son, nephews aged 15 and 17, and a relative in his late 40s—may have been targeted in retaliation for the killing of Atef Abu Kalib, a 50-year-old Haifa resident and junkyard owner, earlier in the day.
