A man was gunned down in the Nazareth area early Monday morning, the sixth person from Israel’s Arab community to be killed in just over 24 hours.

The man, 30, was fatally shot in his car in the northern town of Yafia and paramedics declared him dead on the scene, according to Hebrew reports.

Police opened a homicide investigation into the incident.

Another man, 50, was seriously injured in a separate shooting in the central Arab city of Barta’a Sunday night, the Magen David Adom emergency medical service said.

The incidents follow the killings of five people in shootings and car bombings across Israel on Sunday, including an explosion in Jaffa that also wounded a six-year-old boy who was in the vehicle as his father was killed.

The deaths are attributed to gangland killings and family disputes. Monday’s shooting took the Arab community’s death toll this year to at least 142, according to the Abraham Initiatives watchdog.

That compares with 120 people during the same period last year, which itself marked the deadliest year for Arab society on record, with 252 Arab citizens killed, as a years-long crisis of violent crime beset the minority.

At the current rate, 2026 will surpass that........

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