A 49-year-old man was shot, leaving him in moderate condition in Haifa on Tuesday evening, Israel Police Spokesperson Unit reported.
The man has yet to be named, but he has been identified as the uncle of Lorin Musrati, who was murdered in Ramle over the weekend, N12 reported.
According to the police, the man, who is hospitalized at Rambam Health Care Campus, was going to a mourner's tent when he was shot with a submachine gun.
It is unclear who murdered Musrati, but the culprit was identified as a 37-year-old resident of Ramle.
However, this is only the latest incident to befall Musrati's family.
Six years ago, Musrati's former husband, Ramadan Musrati, was murdered along with his father in the same place Lorin would later be murdered, N12 reported.
These murders are merely the latest instance of violence plaguing Israel's Arab sector, which has seen surges of violent crime and death throughout the years.
According to a report published by the Abraham Initiatives, a shared society organization that works to enact equal and positive Jewish-Arab relations in Israel, 71 Arab citizens were killed in 2018, and 89 were killed the following year. A separate, unaffiliated report, released toward the end of 2020, reported a new high of 113 crime-related deaths in the Arab sector that year.
Despite the fact that Arabs make up only 21% of the population, over 50% of violent crimes in Israel directly affect Arab citizens, the Abraham Initiatives found. It attributes the disproportionate statistic in part to “a history of under-policing and tense relations with the Israeli police.”
Shira Silkoff contributed to this report.