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Assignment: What’s killing Israel’s Arabs?

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What’s killing Israel’s Arabs?

12/08/2021 GMT

BBC World Service - Assignment, What’s killing Israel’s Arabs?

The violent crime wave afflicting Arab communities in Israel

Why Arab Israelis are suffering a deadly crime wave – and how the fallout could threaten coexistence with the majority Jewish population

Israel’s Arab population is in the grip of a violent and deadly crime wave. Since the start of the year, scores of Arab citizens have lost their lives and increasingly, even women and children are victims of drive-by killings, point-blank shootings and escalating gang warfare. Arabs account for only around one in five of all Israelis, yet they are now the majority of the country’s murder victims. Many say the problem of organised crime has grown out of control within their communities; others argue that the police do little to combat it. Some claim that Israel’s Jewish majority simply does not care. With a new coalition government now in office, which includes an Arab party, the BBC’s Yolande Knell meets victims’ families and those in authority to find out what is going on, and what hope there is for an end to the carnage. 

Producers: Quique Kierszenbaum in Israel and Michael Gallagher in London
Editor: Bridget Harney

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