53-year-old Ayyoub Shehadeh was shot dead in the Israeli-Druze village of Yarka on Sunday morning, Israel Police announced.
Paramedics who arrived at the scene found him with a gunshot wound in serious condition, and evacuated him to the Galilee Medical Center, the government hospital in Nahariya.
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Police have opened an investigation into the incident, and have so far confirmed that the background for it is criminal, not security related.
Sarah Ben-Nun contributed to this report.
