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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Bethan McKernan and Quique Kierszenbaum in Bir al-Maksur

‘The police don’t care’: gun violence engulfs Israel’s Arab community

Aisha Hujayrat, 40 holds a picture of her son Ammar Hujayrat, three, who was killed by a stray bullet while playing in a playground.
Aisha Hujayrat holds a picture of her son Ammar Hujayrat, three, who was killed by a stray bullet while playing in a playground. Photograph: Quique Kierszenbaum

There has been a break in the rain, and the sun is shining on the orange groves of Bir al-Maksur, a quiet Bedouin village near Nazareth in Israel’s north.

Three-year-old Ammar would have loved splashing in the winter puddles outside the Hujarat family’s home, his aunt said. But two days before, the little boy was shot and killed in a playground by a stray bullet fired during a car chase, and the grieving family is trying to make sense of the way his life ended.

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