Unknown assailants shot at the mayor of Arraba on Sunday, injuring him and another local politician near a bakery in the northern Arab city.

Mayor Ahmad Nasser and Anwar Yassin, the head of the city’s popular committee, both sustained moderate injuries in the ambush, according to first responders.

Police said they launched an investigation into the incident and were searching for suspects. No arrests were immediately reported.

The city’s popular committee decried the incident as a “grave criminal act” and “unacceptable attack on public figures who work to serve the city’s people.”

Separately, a young man succumbed to his wounds on Sunday after being shot and severely injured in Jaffa last week, police said.

The victim, a man in his 20s named Mahmoud Daqqa, was taken to Holon’s Wolfson Medical Center after assailants opened fire on him Wednesday.

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Two suspects were arrested in connection with the incident, which police described as a conflict between criminals.

A court ruled that the pair will remain in custody until Wednesday at least, as police in the Tel Aviv District’s investigations and intelligence division continue to investigate the shooting.

According to the Arab48 news site, the slain man is the brother of Muhammad Daqqa, a 28-year-old man who was gunned down earlier this year in Pisgat Ze’ev, a Jewish neighborhood of East Jerusalem.

Since the beginning of the year, 63 members of the Arab community have been killed in violent criminal incidents. The high death toll follows the minority’s bloodiest year to date, which saw 252 violent killings over the course of 2025.

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